This is a comparative study of the role of Jewish question in the politics of the German and Austrian socialist parties before 1914. The response of the leading Marxist labour movements to Jewish emancipation, the rise of political anti-Semitism, and the emergence of Zionism, are among the subjects analyzed by the author.

Socialism and the Jews: The Dilemmas of Assimilation in Germany and Austria-Hungary (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

History

Wistrich, Robert S.

Europe

The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

This book depicts and evaluates the 'golden age' of Viennese Jewry which coincided with the long reign of the Emperor Franz Joseph between 1848 and 1916. Based on research into the demographic socio-economic, cultural and political factors that favoured the ascent of Viennese Jewry and also the anti-Semitic movements which accompanied its rise, the author reconstructs the place of the Jews in the Empire and provides new insights into the ideological conflicts that have marked the 20th century. The author describes the liberal-Jewish symbiosis, the impact of the nationality struggles in the Empire and its repercussions on Jewish group identity. He examines the genesis of Zionism, Autonomism, Austro-Marxism, and psychoanalysis as 'Jewish' strategies and responses to the dilemmas of modernization. The book explains the religious and political structure and orientation of the official Jewish community and analyzes the problems of identity that affected the Jewish intelligentsia and helped make Vienna the scene of one of the most seminal intellectual revolutions in history.

The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

This study depicts and evaluates the 'golden age' of Viennese Jewry during the long reign of Emperor Franz Joseph (1848-1916). Based on detailed research, it provides new insights not only into the factors that favoured the ascent of Viennese Jewry and the antisemitic movements that accompanied its rise, but also into the ideological conflicts that have marked the 20th century. The author describes the impact of nationality struggles in the Empire and its repercussions on Jewish identity, and examines in detail the genesis of Zionism, Autonomism, Austro-Marxism and psychoanalysis as Jewish strategies and responses to the dilemmas of modernization. In doing so, he analyzes the problems of identity that affected the Jewish intelligentsia of Vienna and helped make it the scene of one of the most seminal intellectual revolutions in history. The book should appeal to scholars and students of European and Jewish history, social historians and the general reader with an interest in Vienna.

Oxford University Press

What role did individual Jews play in the European socialist movement of the 19th and 20th centuries and why did some of them become such important cataysts of social change? Did their active particiaption in revolutionary socialism have something to do with their Jewish origins and heritage? What attitude did they adopt, as socialists and as Jews, to the growth of anti-Semitism and the emergence of Zionism in various European societies? This book, the first in any langauge to deal systematically with this complex and emotionally charged subject, provides some fascinating answers to these controversial questions.

Revolutionary Jews from Marx to Trotsky

George G.Harrap & Co.,Ltd

Robert Wistrich begins by exploring the origins of anti-Semitism in Europe, and especially in Germany, to try to explain how millions of Jews came to be killed systematically by the Third Reich. In the process of relating these events, he provides new and incisive answers to a number of central questions concerning the Shoah that have emerged over recent years: who, inside and outside Nazi Germany, knew that Jews were being murdered; how responsibility for the genocide should be divided between Hitler himself and ordinary Germans; and how historians have tried to make sense of the Holocaust. The book concludes by considering the legacy of Nazi crimes since 1945: the Nuremburg trials, the impact of the Holocaust on Diaspora Jewry (particularly in Israel and America), and the rise of neo-Nazism and Holocaust-denial. Wistrich’s book provides an exemplary account of the horrors that took place Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, and is a powerful and original contribution to the literature of those terrible events.

Hitler and the Holocaust (Universal History)

Modern Library

Who's Who in Nazi Germany looks at the individuals who influenced every aspect of life in Nazi Germany. It covers a representative cross-section of German society from 1933-1945, and includes:* Nazi Party leaders; SS, Wehrmacht and Gestapo personalities; civil service and diplomatic personnel* industrialists, churchmen, intellectuals, artists, entertainers and sports personalities* Resistance leaders, political dissidents, critics and victims of the regime* extensive biographical information on each figure extending into the post-warr period* analysis of their role and significance in Nazi Germany* an accessible, easy to use A-Z layout* a glossary and comprehensive bibliography.Who's Who in Nazi Germany will be a fascinating and indispensible source of reference for all those interested in this pivotal period in twentieth-century history.

Who's who in Nazi Germany

Biographies & Memoirs

Reference & Collections

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Hitler's Apocalypse: Jews and the Nazi Legacy

Military

New York: St. Martin's Press

Between Redemption & Perdition: Modern Antisemitism and Jewish Identity (Routledge Library Editions: Jewish History and Identity)

Routledge

Provides a country-by-country look at antisemitism, from its pagan beginnings to its recent reemergence in Europe

Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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A leading historian in the field of Jewish studies, Robert S. Wistrich focuses here on the challenge to Jewish identity posed by the conflicting forces of enlightenment, emancipation, modern political antisemitism, and secular ideologies like Zionism, nationalism, and socialism. At the heart of his discussion stands the intense, tortured, and ultimately tragic encounter of Jews with Germans and Austrians. He also deals at length with the new problems of Jewish cultural and political identity posed by the existence of the state of Israel and its embattled position among the nations. In the of his analysis Professor Wistrich looks at the tragedy of assimilation in central Europe, with the optimistic dream of Enlightenment and Bildung coming to a climax in the nightmare of racial antisemitism and the Holocaust. He explores the ambivalent relationship of the Jews with the European Left, showing how many Jewish intellectuals found a new political home in radical and socialist movements, though these movements often retained negative stereotypes of Jews and Judaism and exhibited a fierce opposition to the maintenance of any separate Jewish identity. Professor Wistrich goes on to describe the role of Zionism, and examines the more recent challenges to its legitimacy. He also gives a perceptive account of modern myths of the Jew, and considers the challenge that contemporary antisemitism poses to Israel and the Jewish people as a whole. Exploring the current antagonistic trends in France, Britain, West Germany, the USSR, and the Middle East, Wistrich demonstrates convincingly how the Jewish world remains suspended in the gray zone between messianic hopes of redemption and the ongoing trauma of possible extinction. To confront this challenge without surrendering to violence and fanaticism is, he believes, one of the great tasks facing Jews and Gentiles alike in the closing years of the twentieth century.

Between Redemption and Perdition: Modern Antisemitism and Jewish Identity

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Socialism and the Jews: The Dilemmas of Assimilation in Germany and Austria-Hungary (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Revolutionary Jews from Marx to Trotsky

Hitler and the Holocaust (Universal History)

Who's who in Nazi Germany

Hitler's Apocalypse: Jews and the Nazi Legacy

Between Redemption & Perdition: Modern Antisemitism and Jewish Identity (Routledge Library Editions: Jewish History and Identity)

Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred.

Between Redemption and Perdition: Modern Antisemitism and Jewish Identity