Daniel Wildmann

... seit 2006 Deputy Director des Leo Baeck Institute London; 2008 Promotion; seit 2009 Lecturer am Queen Mary College, University ... Oktober 2006), 237, 26; Thorsten Haselbauer: Formfehler im Rassismus-Verfahren: „Belohnung für tauben Referee", in: Frankfurter Zeitung, 290 ...

Historians, political scientists, sociologists etc. have primarily approached modern antiSemitism as a cognitive phenomenon, mainly to be described with the concept of „prejudice“. If and how the recent shift towards the study of emotions in the human and social sciences could change this perspective and refocus the respective historiography, was the subject of the international conference „Emotions and the History of Modern Anti-Semitism“ which took place on April, 16th–18th 2012 at the research center „History of Emotions“ of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB) in Berlin. It was organized by Uffa Jensen (MPIB), Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Center for Research on Antisemitism, Berlin), Raphael Gross and Daniel Wildmann (Leo Baeck Institute London). In his introduction, the historian UFFA JENSEN (Berlin) stressed the importance of a praxeological understanding of emotions in order to avoid the reification of anti-Semitism via the emotions. During the interwar perio...

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Until the second half of the 1990s, no historical research was carried out into Swiss involvement in the aryanisation of businesses in the area under National Socialist control, with the exception of the tobacco industry. The issue of assets which reached Switzerland as part of the aryanisation process is a key element of the ICE’s mandate and is therefore examined in a number of the studies. This contribution to the research focusses primarily on the transfer of company ownership, and concentrates on events in Austria, for the following reasons: firstly, the forcible expulsion of Jews from the Austrian business sector commenced immediately after the Anschluss and was completed within a matter of months; the dubious legality of company takeovers, dismissals and expropriations which occurred as a result of persecution or legal duress was therefore apparent to the Swiss by 1938/39. Secondly, the majority of documents relating to Austria are archived centrally in Vienna and are easily ...