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In the early 1990's, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that Greek culture had been stolen from Africa and that Jews were responsible for the slave trade. This book tells the disturbing story of what happened when she spoke out. Lefkowitz quickly learned that to investigate the origin and meaning of myths composed by people who have for centuries been dead and buried is one thing, but it is quite another to critique myths that living people take very seriously. She also found that many in academia were reluctant to challenge the fashionable idea that truth is merely a form of opinion. For her insistent defense of obvious truths about the Greeks and the Jews, Lefkowitz was embroiled in turmoil for a decade. She faced institutional indifference, angry colleagues, reverse racism, anti-Semitism, and even a lawsuit intended to silence her. In History Lesson Lefkowitz describes what it was like to experience directly the power of both postmodernism and compensatory politics. She offers personal insights into important issues of academic values and political correctness, and she suggests practical solutions for the divisive and painful problems that arise when a political agenda takes precedence over objective scholarship. Her forthright tale uncovers surprising features in the landscape of higher education and an unexpected need for courage from those who venture there.
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College teachers --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Antisemitism in higher education --- Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur) --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 --- Antisémitisme dans l'enseignement supérieur --- History --- Causes --- Histoire --- Universités --- Antisémitisme --- Shoah --- Corps enseignant --- Origines --- Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur) --- Antisémitisme dans l'enseignement supérieur --- Origines.
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"How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its victims to sleep at night? Or did they look the other way, whether out of deliberate denial or out of fear for their own personal safety? The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich is a collection of groundbreaking essays that shed light on this previously overlooked piece of history. The Betrayal of the Humanities accepts the regrettable news that academics and intellectuals in Nazi Germany betrayed the humanities, and explores what went wrong, what occurred at the universities, and what happened to the major disciplines of the humanities under National Socialism. The Betrayal of the Humanities details not only how individual scholars, particular departments, and even entire universities collaborated with the Nazi regime but also examines the legacy of this era on higher education in Germany. In particular, it looks at the peculiar position of many German scholars in the post-war world having to defend their own work, or the work of their mentors, while simultaneously not appearing to accept Nazism"
Higher education --- History of Germany and Austria --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- Universities and colleges --- Humanities --- Learning and scholarship --- National socialism and education --- Antisemitism in higher education --- Université --- Nazisme --- Éducation --- Antisémitisme --- Savoir et érudition --- Sciences humaines --- Étude et enseignement (supérieur) --- XXe s. av JC -- 2000-1901 av JC --- Allemagne
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