Description
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide variety of European sources, this title presents the history of Habsburg Jews - important but often forgotten community to be written since the nineteenth century.
Trade Review"William McCagg has done a great service for scholarship - and for Habsburg scholarship in particular - through his book. Scholars are in his debt." History of European Ideas " ... strongly recommended to those interested in either Jewish or Habsburg history." American Historical Review "... McCagg tells a fascinating story with expert knowledge, with the sure eye and sound judgment of the experienced historian ..." Midstream " ... exceptionally fine research and the time frame of the study which make it quite remarkable and original." German Politics & Society "William McCagg brings out the extent to which Jews were divided not only as Jews, but also as citizens of Austro-Hungary ... McCagg writes perceptively of Kafka's predicament as a German-speaking Jew in Prague, living through the Czech nationalist revival ..." New York Review of Books
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Introduction
Part I: Choosing a Road, 1670-1800
2. The First Decisions
3. "Self" Denial Begins
Part II: The Great Bourgeois Experiment, 1800-1850
4. Vienna's Bourgeoisie
5. Bohemian Breakthrough
6. A Judeophile Revolution
Part III: Facing the Challenge, 1850-1875
7. Galician Deadlock
8. Hungarian Success
9. Vienna Confused
Part IV: The Catastrophes, 1875-1918
10. Imperialism and Anti-Semitism: Trieste, the Bukowina, Bohemia
11. The Crisis: Galicia, Hungary, Vienne
12. The Collapse: Habsburg Jewry, Class by Class
13. Conclusions
Appendix: The Jewish Population of Vienna, 1780-1918
Abbreviations used in notes and bibliography
Bibliography
Index
