| FA-55565-10 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Peter Alexander Meyers | "Why Do They Hate the Jews?": A Lost Political Treatise from the Struggle against Hitler | 9/1/2010 - 8/31/2011 | $50,400.00 | Peter | Alexander | Meyers | | | | Princeton University | Princeton | NJ | 08540-5228 | USA | 2009 | Political Science, General | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 50400 | 0 | 50400 | 0 |
The purpose of this project is multiple. I will publish for the first time a book written by German Jewish journalist Rudolf Schay in 1939 called "Why Do They Hate the Jews?" The edition will include a one-hundred page preface giving Schay's biography, his career in and exile from Germany to the Philippines, the circumstances in which he wrote this book, as well as a critical study of the work in comparison with Hannah Arendt's "Origins of Totalitarianism," which it resembles but which it predates by 12 years. Schay's book is a major contribution to 20th century political thought and it has been, until I discovered the manuscript, completely unknown. |