Scientification of the "e;Jewish Question"e; in Nazi Germany

The Scientification of the "e;Jewish Question"e; in Nazi Germany describes the attempt of a considerable number of German scholars to counter the vanishing influence of religious prejudices against the Jews with a new antisemitic rationale. As anti-Jewish stereotypes of an old-fashioned soteriological kind had become dysfunctional under the pressure of secularization, a new, more objective explanation was needed to justify the age-old danger of Judaism in the present. In the 1930s a new research field called "e;Judenforschung"e; (Jew research) emerged. Its leading figures amalgamated racial and religious features to verify the existence of an everlasting "e;Jewish problem"e;. Along with that they offered scholarly concepts for its solution.