The passion of Max von Oppenheim : archaeology and intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler / [Lionel Gossman].

The passion of Max von Oppenheim : archaeology and intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler /

Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Baron Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist. His discovery and excavation of Tell Halaf in Syria marked an important contribution to knowledge of the ancient Middle East, while his massive study of the Bedou...

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Main Author: Gossman, Lionel (Author)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
German
Published: [Cambridge] : Open Book Publishers, [approximately 2013]
Series:OpenBook Publishers.
Open Access e-Books.
Subjects:
Oppenheim, Max, > Freiherr von, > 1860-1946.
Oppenheim, Max von > (Max Adrian Simon), > 1860-1946.
Diplomats > Germany > Biography.
Middle East specialists > Germany > Biography.
Middle East > History > 20th century.
Middle East > Antiquities.
Table of Contents:
  • I. FAMILY BACKGROUND, DIPLOMATIC CAREER, ROLE IN WORLD WAR I
  • The Oppenheims
  • The Charm of the Orient
  • Attaché in Cairo. "The Kaiser's Spy"
  • The Spectre of Pan-Islamism and Jihad. The Background of Oppenheim's 1914 Denkschrift betreffend die Revolutionierung der islamischen Gebiete Unserer Feinde
  • Oppenheim's 1914 Denkschrift
  • Promoter of German Economic Expansion and the Berlin-Baghdad Railway
  • PART II. THE ARCHAEOLOGIST: TELL HALAF
  • Discovery and Excavation, Publications and Critical Reception
  • Financial Difficulties. The Fate of the Tell Halaf Finds
  • PART III. "THE KAISER'S SPY" UNDER NATIONAL SOCIALISM. "LEBEN IM NS-STAAT"
  • Questions
  • The Oppenheims and their Bank under National Socialism
  • Waldemar and Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim, so-called "Quarter-Jews", during the National Socialist Regime: Work for the Abwehr (German Counter-Intelligence) and Association with the Conservative "Widerstand" (German Resistance)
  • Max von Oppenheim, "Half-Jew," during the National Socialist Regime
  • Middle East
  • Oppenheim on the Race Question
  • Support of the Regime
  • Plotting for Nazi Germany. Oppenheim's Role in the Middle East Policy of the Third Reich
  • Max von Oppenheim's Last Years
  • PART IV. MAX VON OPPENHEIM'S RELATION TO NATIONAL SOCIALISM IN CONTEXT. SOME RESPONSES OF "NON-ARYAN" GERMANS TO NATIONAL SOCIALISM
  • Two Jewish Organizations: the Verband nationaldeutscher Juden (Association of German National Jews) and the Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten (Jewish War Veterans Association)
  • Some Individuals: Schoeps, Pevsner, Kantorowicz, Landmann
  • By Way of Conclusion.

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