Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany

This book is a study of the ideological and political relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in modern Germany.

Francis R. Nicosia (Author)

9780521883924, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 5 May 2008

344 pages
24 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.62 kg

'Nicosia has analyzed an impressive number of documents from German and Zionist archives … In [the] important … chapter [on] the cooperation between Zionists and National Socialists, Nicosia emphasizes that in no way was it about equal parties, but rather about the persecutors and those they persecuted - and that the latter were sent to their deaths as soon as the Nazi state no longer had any use for them.' translated from Frankfürter Allgemeine Zeitung

This book is a study of the ideological and political relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in modern Germany, from the nineteenth century through the Third Reich, focusing on the years between 1933 and 1942. It considers three contentious issues in post-Holocaust historiography and debate: the nature of modern German anti-Semitism; the decision-making process leading to the Nazi mass murder of the Jews of Europe; and the nature and role of German Zionism in German-Jewish history before the Holocaust. This study sheds more light on both the ideological and practical assault of German anti-Semitism and Nazi Jewish policy on the Jews of Central Europe, as well as the ideological and political response of some German Jews, the Zionists, to that assault. It concludes that the attitudes and policies of German anti-Semitism and National Socialism toward Zionism reflect a relatively consistent ideology that was applied in an inconsistent and contradictory manner.

1. Introduction
2. The age of emancipation in imperial Germany
3. The Weimar years
4. 1933: Nazi confusion, Zionist illusion
5. Zionism in Nazi Jewish policy, 1934–8
6. German Zionism, 1934–8: confrontation with reality
7. Revisionist Zionism in Germany, 1934–8
8. Zionist occupational retraining and Nazi Jewish policy
9. From dissolution to final solution
10. Conclusions.

Subject Areas: Jewish studies [JFSR1], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], European history [HBJD]