The Self-Perception of a Small Nation: The Reception of Eugenics in Interwar Estonia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. List of Contributors viii
5. Introduction
6. Eugenics, Race and Nation in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900–1940: A Historiographic Overview 1
7. Part I. Ethnography and Racial Anthropology
8. German “Race Psychology” and Its Implementation in Central Europe: Egon von Eickstedt and Rudolf Hippius 23
9. From “Prisoner of War Studies” to Proof of Paternity: Racial Anthropologists and the Measuring of “Others” in Austria 41
10. Volksdeutsche and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Vienna: The “Marienfeld Project” 55
11. Of “Yugoslav Barbarians” and Croatian Gentlemen Scholars: Nationalist Ideology and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Yugoslavia 83
12. Anthropological Discourse and Eugenics in Interwar Greece 123
13. Part II. Eugenics and Racial Hygiene in National Contexts
14. Eugenics, Social Genetics and Racial Hygiene: Plans for the Scientific Regulation of Human Heredity in the Czech Lands, 1900–1925 145
15. Progressivism and Eugenic Thinking in Poland, 1905–1939 167
16. The First Debates on Eugenics in Hungary, 1910–1918 185
17. Taking Care of the National Body: Eugenic Visions in Interwar Bulgaria, 1905–1940 223
18. The Self-Perception of a Small Nation: The Reception of Eugenics in Interwar Estonia 253
19. Central Europe Confronts German Racial Hygiene: Friedrich Hertz, Hugo Iltis and Ignaz Zollschan as Critics of Racial Hygiene 263
20. Part III. Religion, Public Health and Population Policies
21. “Moses als Eugeniker”? The Reception of Eugenic Ideas in Jewish Medical Circles in Interwar Poland 283
22. Eugenics and Catholicism in Interwar Austria 299
23. From Welfare to Selection: Vienna’s Public Health Office and the Implementation of Racial Hygiene Policies under the Nazi Regime 317
24. Fallen Women and Necessary Evils: Eugenic Representations of Prostitution in Interwar Romania 335
25. Part IV. Anti-Semitism, Nationalism and Biopolitics
26. Culturalist Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in Fin-de-Siècle Romania 353
27. The Politics of Hatred: Scapegoating in Interwar Hungary 375
28. Racial Politics and Biomedical Totalitarianism in Interwar Europe 389
29. Tunnel Visions and Mysterious Trees: Modernist Projects of National and Racial Regeneration, 1880–1939 417
30. Index 457