Austrians and Jews in the Twentieth Century: From Franz Joseph to Waldheim

✍ Scribed by Robert S. Wistrich (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 298
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The relationship between Austrians and Jews in the twentieth-century has been tragic. In the age of Franz Joseph, Jews achieved a degree of security, although their position was already being undermined by antisemitism, ethnic conflicts and nationalism. This book examines the relationship between Austrians and Jews which culminated in the 1938 Anschluss and the Holocaust. It also shows how antisemitism survived the War and how the ground was prepared for the international isolation of Austria during the Waldheim Affair.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
The Jews of Germany and Austria: A Comparative Perspective....Pages 1-18
Jews, Czechs and Germans in Bohemia Before 1914....Pages 19-37
Herzl’s Tannhäuser: The Redemption of the Artist as Politician....Pages 38-57
Jewish Assimilation in Austria: Karl Kraus, Franz Werfel and Joseph Roth on the Catastrophe of 1914–19....Pages 58-81
‘Jewish Self-Hatred’? The Cases of Schnitzler and Canetti....Pages 82-96
David Vogel: A Hebrew Novelist in Vienna....Pages 97-111
Albert Ehrenstein and the Tragedy of Exile....Pages 112-123
The Pagan Freud....Pages 124-141
Judaic Motifs in Wittgenstein....Pages 142-161
Arnold Schoenberg: Language, Modernism and Jewish Identity....Pages 162-183
The Kraus—Bekessy Controversy: in Interwar Vienna....Pages 184-198
The Dynamics of Persecution in Austria, 1938–45....Pages 199-219
‘Neutrality’ Not Sympathy: Jews in Post-War Austria....Pages 220-233
The Kreisky Phenomenon: A Reassessment....Pages 234-251
New Faces of Anti-Semitic Prejudice in Austria: Reflections on the ‘Waldheim Affair’....Pages 252-273
Back Matter....Pages 275-280

✦ Subjects

European History; Modern History; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Jewish Cultural Studies; Ethnicity Studies