Steinweis Alan E 1957 (2 results)
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Published by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2009
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hardcover. Condition: Fine. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: fine dust-jacket, cover price $23.95, fresh attractive copy, fine white half-cloth with black boards, essentially a like new book. STEINWEIS, ALAN E. Kristallnacht 1938. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009, 214pp., . On November 7, 1938, a J…ewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, fatally shot a German diplomat in Paris. Within three days anti Jewish violence erupted throughout Germany, initially incited by local Nazi officials, and ultimately sanctioned by the decisions of Hitler and Goebbels at the pinnacle of the Third Reich. As synagogues burned and Jews were beaten in the streets, police stood aside. Men, women, and children, many neighbors of the victims, participated enthusiastically in acts of violence, rituals of humiliation, and looting. By the night of November 10th, a nationwide antisemitic pogrom had inflicted massive destruction on synagogues, Jewish schools, and Jewish owned businesses. During and after this spasm of violence and plunder, 30,000 Jewish men were rounded up and sent to concentration camps, where hundreds would perish in the following months. Kristallnacht revealed to the world the intent and extent of Nazi Judeophobia. However, it was seen essentially as the work of the Nazi leadership. Now, the author counters that view in his vision of Kristallnacht as a veritable pogrom, a popular cathartic convulsion of antisemitic violence that was manipulated from above but executed from below by large numbers of ordinary Germans rioting in the streets, heckling and taunting Jews, cheering Stormtroopers' hostility, and looting Jewish property on a massive scale. Based on original research in the trials of the pogrom's perpetrators and the testimonies of its Jewish survivors, the author brings to light the evidence of mob action by all sectors of the civilian population. This work reveals the true depth and nature of popular antisemitism in Nazi Germany on the eve of the Holocaust. ISBN 9780674036239.
More imagesPublished by Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1993, 1993
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Contact seller5-star seller, near fine dust-jacket, fresh attractive black cloth, appears unused. STEINWEIS, ALAN E. Art, ideology & economics in Nazi Germany. The Reich chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1993, 1st printing number line ending in 1, x, 233pp., . Originated as a University of N…orth Carolina dissertation. The author thanks Gerhard Weinberg and Konrad Jarausch in his acknowledgments. -From 1933 to 1945, the Reich Chamber of Culture exercised a profound influence over hundreds of thousands of German artists and entertainers. Subdivided into separate chambers for music, theater, the visual arts, literature, film, radio, and the press, this organization encompassed several hundred thousand professionals and influenced the activities of millions of amateur artists and musicians as well. Alan Steinweis focuses on the fields of music, theater, and the visual arts in this first major study of Nazi cultural administration, examining a complex pattern of interaction among leading Nazi figures, German cultural functionaries, ordinary artists, and consumers of culture. One of the most persistent generalizations to emerge from research on Nazi Germany is the notion of a German artistic and cultural establishment at the mercy of a totalitarian regime determined to mobilize the arts for its own ideological purposes.^, Steinweis argues that this generalization obscures a more complex reality. It overlooks continuities in the agenda of the German cultural establishment from the Weimar Republic through the Nazi period and presupposes a clearer distinction than actually existed between officialdom and the cultural elite, thereby overestimating the degree to which policy affecting artists originated outside the artistic world. Steinweis describes the political, professional, and economic environment in which German artists were compelled to function and explains the structure of decision making, showing in whose interest cultural policies were formulated. He discusses such issues as work creation, social insurance, minimum wage statutes, and certification guidelines, all of which were matters of high priority to the art professions before 1933 as well as after the Nazi seizure of power.^, By elucidating the economic and professional context of cultural life, Steinweis also contributes to an understanding of the response of German artists to cultural Gleichschaltung, or "coordination," and helps to explain the widespread acquiescence of German artists to artistic censorship and racial and political "purification." - CONTENTS: Art and culture in the Weimar Republic: the economic, institutional, and political context -- Nazi coordination of the arts and the creation of the Reich Chamber of Culture, 1933 -- Evolution of the Chamber System -- The varieties of patronage, 1933-1939 -- Germanizing the arts -- Mobilizing artists for war. 9780807821046 ISBN 0807821047.
