Where can I find information about Johannes Pohl?
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With many thanks to @Marakai, the review of Maria-KΓΌhn Ludewig's book on Johannes Pohl answers my question. It can be found here, and suggests that the claims of Roskies, etc, might have been mistaken: Pohl never studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
On the contrary, he spent three years at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, where he earned a doctorate in Biblical Studies. He then spent 1931-1934 at the Oriental Institute of the GΓΆrres Society (Orientalischen Institut der GΓΆrres-Gesellschaft) in Jerusalem, where he also worked for the German Association of the Holy Land (Deutschen Verein vom Heiligen Land).
Anecdotally, having now looked at several of his articles in Der Sturmer (with thanks to @JohnDallman for the links), I have seen him providing translations for several passages in rabbinic Hebrew, but only very little in Aramaic. One notable exception is in the 1939 "Ritual Murder edition" of Der Sturmer, in which he mistranslates a passage from Tikkunei Zohar (but my guess, based on other "errors" in his works, is that the mistranslation is deliberate).
This would accord with his having focused on Old Testament studies: despite the presence of Aramaic within Daniel and Ezra (+ a single verse in Jeremiah and two words in Genesis), it makes sense to suppose that Pohl's studies concentrated on Hebrew exclusively.
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The book, "The Book Smugglers - Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis - The True Story of the Paper Brigade of Vilna" by David E. Fishman, deals extensively with Pohl as he was the Nazi in charge of looting Jewish treasures and sending them to Germany for "scholarly" study.
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German Wikipedia has a page on him, with references to books that mention him, and there's a more here and here.
Google Books has Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany online with a bunch of references to Pohl, and Lessons and Legacies VI: New Currents in Holocaust Research with more.
Searching on "Johannes Pohl 1904" gets you the right man and avoids confusion with the more recent psychologist. The "Pohl Trial" in Nuremberg was of Oswald Pohl, a different man.
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