Anson Rabinbach, son of Hardscrabble, a radical New York clothing worker who paid his own way through the university to become one of the world's leading experts during the Nazi era, gave a speech in Rome on Sunday. He died in Rome. He was 79 years old.
His ex-wife, Jessica Benjamin, said the hospital death was due to complications from a heart attack.
Professor Rabinbach (pronounced Love in Bock) was one of several young scholars in the early 1970s, particularly in the territories of Europe in the 20th century, with the abstract world of social history and often intellectual history. I tried to fill the gap.
Following the groundbreaking work of the leader of the University of Wisconsin George Moss, Professor Rabinbach said that Nazism is not a single wild ideology, but rather by a loose coalition of ideas, sometimes by a loose coalition of ideas. claimed that it was supplied. It included violent anti-Semitism.
“He took Nazism seriously as a cultural revolution,” University of Maryland historian Jeffrey Half said in an interview.
This position stands in conflict with many older historians in modern Europe, not to mention the intellectual environment of Germany, not to mention years since they worked on the true meaning of the Holocaust. I did it. The rise of the Third Reich, which many believe, was driven by economics and politics. The idea was irrelevant.
“There was certainly a huge allergy in postwar West Germany among historians who acknowledge the importance of ideology and anti-Semitism,” he said in 2019 historians Jonathon Katlin, Dagmar Herzog and Stefano. He spoke in an interview with Su Guerulanos.
In 1973, Professor Rabinbach and three other scholars, David Basrick, Andreas Huyssen and Jack Zipes, made a critique of the Journal New German. It was established.
It quickly became a major outlet for scholars of 20th century German culture, including film, theater and social movements, broaching anti-Semitic subjects before, during and after the Nazi era. This journal has often helped to introduce post-war German thinkers to post-war German thinkers by translating their works into English for the first time.
He taught at Princeton, held top fellowships around the world, and spoke with Professor Rabinbach, who always gave criticism of his intellectual “Heimat” or home, the new German criticism, left and right both were places where we could express our reflexive antipathy towards Orthodox.
“He always hated the certainty of ideological ideology,” Colombian historian Huyssen said in an interview. “His irony has always served him very well in dismantling all sorts of fantasies, political fantasies, cultural fantasies.”
Professor Rabinbach was probably best known for his work that seemed to have little connection to Nazism. Human Motion: The Origins of Energy, Fatigue, and Modernity (1990) describes how ideas about energy from humans to mechanical worlds across the physical world of the 19th century are scientists, economists, and policymaking. We explored how those can revolutionize. dealt with human labor.
These considerations not only promoted progressive reform, they also focus on the health, beauty and racial purity of the fascist movement.
“He was very good at combining high intellectual history with broader cultural history,” said Martin Jay, a history professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in an interview.
Anson Gilbert Rabinbach, known as Andy from a childhood, was born in the Bronx on June 2, 1945. His parents, Gabriel and Esther (Kleinman) Rabinbach, were Jewish immigrants from what is now southeastern Poland.
They and many of their brothers worked in the Clothing District of Manhattan, a hotbed of Jewish leftist movements, both of which were members of the Communist Party. Before coming to America, his father took part in the short-lived communist revolution in Germany in 1918-19, and later spent a year in the Soviet Union.
Andy's family didn't have much money. To pay for university, he spent the summer at a resort around Mount Catskill.
“I was working for a comedian who wasn't very successful,” he said in a 2021 interview with the University of Wisconsin. “She sends me mostly to hotels, various hotels and comedy clubs, where I could sit with my pad and write down the jokes that comedians were saying on stage and use them. It was basically plagiarism.”
He graduated with a history degree and enrolled in the University of Wisconsin's PhD History Program. He intended to study medieval Europe, but his encounter with the book “The Crisis of German Ideology” (1964) by Dr. Moss encouraged him to switch to modern Europe.
Professor Rabinbach's paper was a paper on the Austrian Communist Party during the World War, and became “The Austrian Socialist Crisis: From Red Vienna to the Civil War, 1927-1934” (1983).
Before moving to Princeton in 1996, he taught at Hampshire University in Massachusetts and Cooper Union in New York. He won the honorary position in 2019.
He married Dr. Benjamin in 1980. They divorced in 2009. He was survived by two sons, Jake and Jonah, and three grandchildren.
Professor Rabinbach later wrote in his book In the Shadow of Catastrophe (1997), “In the Shadow of Catastrophe” (1997), “The Shadow of Catastrophe” (1997), “The World War against German Thought.” I wrote about the impact of And with Thunder Gilman, he edited The Third Reich Sourcebook (2013).
Professor Rabinbach's lifelong work on the far right movement gave him special insight into the shaking of the right now ongoing right wing in the Western world.
In an interview in 2019, President Trump said that the ideological change was “a symptom, an original symptom, not an original.”
“He's certainly not unique,” he added. “He represents an authoritarian turn that is always hiding beneath the surface.”
