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adolf hitler
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german history
holocaust
jewish culture
jewish self-hatred
jewish studies
jewish thought
political debates
psychoanalysis
second world war
self-hating jew
theodor lessing
Weimar Republic
world war ii
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- ISBN 9781789209860
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The diagnosis of Jewish self-hatred has become almost a commonplace in contemporary cultural and political debates, but the concept's origins are not widely appreciated. In its modern form, it received its earliest and fullest expression in Theodor Lessing's 1930 book Der judische Selbsthass. Written on the eve of Hitler's ascent to power, Lessing's hotly contested work has been variously read as a defense of the Weimar Republic, a platform for anti-Weimar sentiments, an attack on psychoanalysis, an inspirational personal guide, and a Zionist broadside. This new edition makes a seminal text in Jewish thought accessible to English readers for the first time.
Theodor Lessing was a German-Jewish philosopher. He taught at Hanover Technical College until right-wing student protests forced him to leave in 1926, after which he worked as an independent scholar and journalist. He was assassinated in 1933 by two National Socialists.
