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I. INTRODUCTION
NAZI-ERA ACADEMIC ANTI-SEMITISM-self-designated as Judenfor-schung-entailed the reevaluation of extant academic studies using scientific method imbued with an anti-Semitic orientation, intention, and result.^sup1^ One key focus of this self-styled "discipline" was an attempt to appropriate internal Jewish historiography and the cultural-anthropological tradition known by the designation "science of Judaism" (Wissenschaft des Judentums).^sup2^ To date, historical inquiry on National Socialist Judenfor-schung has remained relatively scant.^sup3^ Along with pathbreaking older publications by Max Weinreich and Robert Edwin Herzstein,^sup4^ Alan Steinweis's book calls new attention to "scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany."^sup5^ Between 1933 and 1945, the news agency Welt-Dienst (World-Service, Service Mondiale) was the prime interface between anti-Semitic journalism and activism. Its bulletin was full of articles by well-known anti-Semitic activists, and it served as a new global resource for these activists. During World War II, because of its close bond with Alfred Rosenberg's "Office"^sup6^ and its working nexus with the Institute for Research on the Jewish Question (Institut zur Erforschung der Juden-frage, IEJ), Welt-Dienst became a key node for the dissemination of anti-Semitic propaganda. Welt-Dienst was able to acquire this position because of its access to exclusive sources, including private archives and the stolen materials of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), the official state agency for plunder. As such it served as a significant sphere of anti-Semitic activity in the Third Reich-"research on Jews" (Judenforschung).
The field of Judenforschung involved more than mere cooperation between Nazi and anti-Semitic scholars: it designated what researchers regarded as a new field of investigation developed with and through National Socialism. This forcible appropriation of Jewish history for anti-Semitic ends was anchored in a number of newly created research institutes. Prominent among these was the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany in Munich (Reichsinstitut für die Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands),^sup7^ the Institute for the Study and Eradication of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life in Eisenach (Institut zur Er-forschung und Beseitigung des jü dischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben),^sup8^ and the Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question (Institut zum Studium der Judenfrage), founded in Berlin in 1934 by Eberhard Taubert within Goebbels's Propaganda Ministry, which sought to put the "investigation of the Jewish Question" on a scientific footing. Various universities sought to establish...