Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War IThis book explores the impact of war and political crisis on the national identity of Jews, both in the multinational Habsburg monarchy and in the new nation-states that replaced it at the end of World War I. Jews enthusiastically supported the Austrian war effort because it allowed them to assert their Austrian loyalties and Jewish solidarity at the same time. They faced a grave crisis of identity when the multinational state collapsed and they lived in nation-states mostly uncomfortable with ethnic minorities. This book raises important questions about Jewish identity and about the general nature of ethnic and national identity. |
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... Bohemia, 1870–1918 Hillel J. Kieval The Berlin Jewish Community Enlightenment, Family, and Crisis, 1770–1830 Steven M. Lowenstein On Modern Jewish Politics Ezra Mendelsohn The Vatican and Zionism Conflicts in the Holy Land, 1896–1925 ...
... Bohemia, 1870–1918 Hillel J. Kieval The Berlin Jewish Community Enlightenment, Family, and Crisis, 1770–1830 Steven M. Lowenstein On Modern Jewish Politics Ezra Mendelsohn The Vatican and Zionism Conflicts in the Holy Land, 1896–1925 ...
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... Bohemia Galicia Moravia Moravia Bohemia Bohemia Moravia Bukovina Bohemia Bukovina Bohemia Bohemia Bohemia Moravia Moravia Moravia Bohemia Moravia Bohemia Moravia Galicia Moravia Moravia Bohemia Moravia Moravia Bohemia Moravia xiii Place- ...
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... Bohemia Moravia Moravia Bohemia Moravia Slovakia Moravia Galicia Bohemia Bohemia Bohemia Galicia Bohemia Bohemia Moravia Silesia Moravia Moravia Bukovina Galicia Bohemia Reconstructing a National Identity This page intentionally left ...
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... Bohemia and Moravia, some Jews already had adopted a Czech identity before the war, and they felt vindicated by the creation of independent Czechoslovakia. On the other hand, the large community of Yiddish-speaking Jews of Galicia and ...
... Bohemia and Moravia, some Jews already had adopted a Czech identity before the war, and they felt vindicated by the creation of independent Czechoslovakia. On the other hand, the large community of Yiddish-speaking Jews of Galicia and ...
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... Bohemia and Moravia, many places had both German and Czech names, the German names used by the Habsburg au- thorities and the German minority, and the Czech names used by the Czechs and later by the Czechoslovakian government. What the ...
... Bohemia and Moravia, many places had both German and Czech names, the German names used by the Habsburg au- thorities and the German minority, and the Czech names used by the Czechs and later by the Czechoslovakian government. What the ...
Contents
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2 Austrian Jews and the Spirit of 1914 | 39 |
Photo gallery | 58 |
Patriotic War Work and Helping Jewish Refugees | 59 |
4 The Experience of Jewish Soldiers | 82 |
5 Clinging to the Old Identity 19161918 | 106 |
6 The Dissolution of the Monarchy and the Crisis of Jewish Identity October 1918June 1919 | 128 |
Epilogue | 162 |
Notes | 173 |
Bibliography | 229 |
Index | 245 |
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Allianz anti-Semitism April asserted August Austria-Hungary Austrian Jews Austrian Zionists Bnai Brith Bohemia Bohemia and Moravia Brod Brünn Bukovina Bukovinian CAHJP Czech Czechoslovakia December declared fatherland February felt Franz Joseph front Galicia and Bukovina Galician Jewish Galician Jews Galician refugees German culture German-Austria Habsburg Austria Habsburg Monarchy Hungarian Hungary IKG Wien IKG-Repräsentanz insisted interwar Israelitische January Jewish community Jewish ethnic Jewish identity Jewish National Council Jewish nationalists Jewish press Jewish refugees Jewish soldiers Jewry Jews of Galicia Jews of Vienna JKor Juden Jüdische Jüdischer Nationalrat July June Jung Juda Kaiser large numbers liberal loyal loyalty Magyar March modern Moravia Moritz Güdemann multinational nation-state November October organization Orthodox Österreichische Wochenschrift patriotic pogroms Poland Poles Polish political Prag Prague Prague Zionists Rabbi religious Romania Russian Ruthenians Selbstwehr September 1914 Sitzungs-Protokoll Slovakia supranational tion tional traditional tripartite identity Vienna women World Zweimonatsbericht
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Page 5 - Nationalism is a state of mind, in which the supreme loyalty of the individual is felt to be due the nation-state.
Page 5 - Smith, for example, defines nationalism as "an ideological movement for the attainment and maintenance of selfgovernment and independence on behalf of a group, some of whose members conceive it to constitute an actual or potential nation...
Page 5 - I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community - and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.
Page 6 - Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and national unit should be congruent.
Page 7 - The critical focus of investigation from this point of view becomes the ethnic boundary that defines the group, not the cultural stuff that it encloses.
Page 174 - Marsha L. Rozenblit, The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity (Albany...
Page 42 - And to be truthful, I must acknowledge that there was a majestic, rapturous, and even seductive something in this first outbreak of the people from which one could escape only with difficulty. And in spite of all my hatred and aversion for war, I should not like to have missed the memory of those first days. As never before, thousands and hundreds of thousands felt what they should have felt in peace time, that they belonged together.
Page vii - ... and writing of this book. In particular, I would like to thank...