Fantasies Of Degeneration: Some Remarks On Racial Anti-Semitism In Interwar Romania
Fantasies Of Degeneration: Some Remarks On Racial Anti-Semitism In Interwar Romania
Author(s): Marius TurdaSubject(s): Jewish studies
Published by: The Goldstein Goren Center for Hebrew Studies
Summary/Abstract: Contemporary scholarship separates the idea of the nation from the biological concept of “race.” This line of reasoning, so popular in the literature on nationalism, anti-Semitism and Nazism, was explicated by such influential authors as Ernst Nolte, who argued that race doctrine was “an extreme manifestation which, despite some points of contact, stood outside the highly differentiated main strand of European thinking.”
Journal: Studia Hebraica
- Issue Year: 2003
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 336-348
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English
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