General Information

Author/Creator

Tal, Uriel, 1926-1984

Language

English.

Published

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Physical Description

228 p. ; 24 cm.

Series

Totalitarian movements and political religions 1477-058X

Contributors

Contributor

Friedländer, Saul, 1932- (author of introduction)

Contents/Summary

Summary

The essays of the late Uriel Tal uncover the dynamics of the secularization of religion, and the sacralization of politics in the Nazi era, to render explicable the deep ideational structure of the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

Subjects

Subject

Germany > History > 1933-1945.

Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945.

National socialism and philosophy.

National socialism and religion.

Jews > Germany > History > 1933-1945.

Antisemitism > Germany > History > 20th century.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Germany > Ethnic relations.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Uriel Tal.

Content

1. Violence and the Jew in Nazi ideology -- 2. 'Political faith' of Nazism prior to the Holocaust -- 3. On the study of the Holocaust and genocide -- 4. Structures of German 'political theology' in the Nazi era -- 5. Law and theology: on the status of German Jewry at the outset of the Third Reich (1933/34) -- 6. Religious and anti-religious roots of modern Anti-Semitism -- 7. On modern Lutheranism and the Jews -- 8. Jewish and universal social ethics in the life and thought of Albert Einstein.

Library Special Collection

The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection

ISBN

0714651850

0714681903

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	943.086 TAL		General Stacks	-

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