“German Jews,” “National Jews,” “Jewish Volk” or “Racial Jews”? The Constitution and Contestation of “Jewishness” in Newspapers of Nazi Germany, 1933–1938 Journal Article uri icon

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abstract

  • After reading the “Jewish News Bulletin” (Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt) in early 1939, the Romance language scholar Victor Klemperer wrote: “Until 1933 and for at least a good century before that, the German Jews were entirely German and nothing else … They were and remain (even if now they no longer wish to remain so) Germans …” Klemperer, a convert to Protestantism, but a “full Jew” by Nazi decree, continued, “It is part of the Lingua tertii imperii [LTI, language of the Third Reich] that the expression ‘Jewish people’ [Volk] appears repeatedly in the ‘Jewish News'…”

publication date

  • June 1, 2002

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  • closed

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  • March 24, 2024 5:48 AM

Full Author List

  • Pegelow T

author count

  • 1

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0008-9389

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1569-1616

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 195

end page

  • 221

volume

  • 35

issue

  • 2