The Institute for Study of the Jewish Question or Institute for Research of the Jewish Question was a Nazi Partypolitical institution, founded in April 1939. Conceived as a branch of a projected elite university of the party under the direction of Alfred Rosenberg, it officially opened in Frankfurt am Main in March 1941, during the Second World War, and remained in existence until the end of the war, in 1945. It should not be confused with the :de:Institut zum Studium der Judenfrage|Institut zum Studium der Judenfrage, which was part of Goebbels's propaganda ministry; the latter was later renamed :de:Antisemitische Aktion|Antisemitische Aktion and then :de:Antijüdische Aktion|Antijüdische Aktion. Also, in occupied France, the Institut d'étude des questions juives was a propaganda institution established in Paris in 1943 by the German military command. When the institute was founded, the official journalZiel und Weg of the National Socialist German Doctors' League, which was led by Leonardo Conti, welcomed it and demanded: "The Half-Jew has to be treated like the Full-Jew... so that he is no danger for the protection of the racial value of the European peoples." The institute cooperated with Walter Frank's Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany, especially with its Research Department for the Jewish Question, which was led by the demographer Friedrich Burgdörfer, who had published the pamphlet "Are the White Nations Dying? The Future of the White and the Colored Nations in the Light of Biological Statistics", which became the origin of the White genocide conspiracy theory. The institute's journal "The World-Struggle. Monthly for Global Politics, Racial Culture and the Jewish Question in all Countries" was edited by Ernst Graf zu Reventlow; contributors included Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch and Johann von Leers. The effective aim of the institute was information-gathering for propaganda purposes in support of anti-Semitic policy and, later, the Holocaust. It became the recipient of looted books and other cultural materials from Jewish libraries and institutions in the occupied territories. The institute's main librarian was :de:Johannes Pohl|Johannes Pohl, a scholar of Hebrew and Jewish studies, former Roman Catholic Vicar and alumnus of the Pontifical Biblical Institute.
