This highly acclaimed study depicts and evaluates in an original and imaginative fashion the 'Golden Age' of Viennese Jewry during the long reign of Emperor Franz Joseph II. Based on exhaustive and meticulous research, Professor Wistrich's reconstruction of the place of the Jews in the Austro-Hungarian Empire provides a multitude of new insights not only into the factors that accompanied its rise, but also into the ideological conflicts that have marked the twentieth century.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Robert S. Wistrich
EAN: 9781904113492
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 907 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Liverpool University Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2006-06-29
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GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, MEDICAL / Family & General Practice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
WIDTH: 135 cm
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Austria, c 1500 onwards to present day, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, History and Archaeology, European history
‘Fascinating . . . both encyclopedic and brilliantly researched and beyond question will remain, far longer than several other recent productions concerning turn-of-the-century Viennese Jewry, both interesting to general readers and useful to scholars . . . an important book.’ - William McCagg, American Historical Review, ‘Parmi les plus récent ouvrages, signalons l’étude fondamentale de Robert S. Wistrich . . .’ - P. Ginewski, Diaspora, ‘Monumental . . . hugely informative.’ - Norman Lebrecht, Jewish Chronicle, ‘Wistrich combines such a wealth of information, such elegance of style, and such maturity of judgement, that one reads his book with considerable intellectual pleasure. His final section, on culture and identity . . . is so enjoyable that one regrets that Wistrich did not take the story down to 1938.’ - Frank Field, English Historical Review, ‘Masterly’ - John Warren, Immigrants and Minorities
Robert S. Wistrich was Neuberger Professor of Modern European and Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also Director of its Vidal Sassoon International Centre for the Study of Antisemitism. The recipient of many international awards, he was the author and editor of several books, including Socialism and the Jews: The Dilemmas of Assimilation in Germany and Austria-Hungary (1984), published by the Littman Library, as well as Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred, Understanding the Holocaust, Hitler and the Holocaust, Obsession: Radical Islam and the West, and Masters and Victims: Jewish Fate in Central Europe. He died in 2015.
