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Vienna and its Jews : the tragedy of success : 1880s-1980s /
Examines Jewish life in Vienna, outlining internal dissensions and conflicts between assimilationist and traditional Jews and focusing on the rise and evolution of modern Austrian antisemitism. Jews were attacked as both capitalists and Marxists, as racially inferior and as a corrupting element, fro...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, MA : Lanham, Md. :
Abt Books ; Madison Books,
©1988.
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Examines Jewish life in Vienna, outlining internal dissensions and conflicts between assimilationist and traditional Jews and focusing on the rise and evolution of modern Austrian antisemitism. Jews were attacked as both capitalists and Marxists, as racially inferior and as a corrupting element, from the time of Christian Socialist Karl Lueger to Hitler and the Nazi period. Describes the Holocaust period, the persecution and deportation of Austria's Jews, and the unwillingness of Austrians to deal with their Nazi and anti-Jewish past after the war, as shown by their reluctance to bring war criminals to trial and by Kurt Waldheim's election as president. |
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xxi, 422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-405). |
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0819168165 9780819168160 |