The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
2 total works
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.
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.