{"product_id":"a-history-of-habsburg-jews-16701918-9780253206497","title":"A History of Habsburg Jews 16701918","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u0026amp; 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Choosing a Road, 1670-1800\u003cbr\u003e2. The First Decisions\u003cbr\u003e3. \"Self\" Denial Begins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: The Great Bourgeois Experiment, 1800-1850\u003cbr\u003e4. Vienna's Bourgeoisie\u003cbr\u003e5. Bohemian Breakthrough\u003cbr\u003e6. A Judeophile Revolution\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Facing the Challenge, 1850-1875\u003cbr\u003e7. Galician Deadlock\u003cbr\u003e8. Hungarian Success\u003cbr\u003e9. Vienna Confused\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: The Catastrophes, 1875-1918\u003cbr\u003e10. Imperialism and Anti-Semitism: Trieste, the Bukowina, Bohemia\u003cbr\u003e11. The Crisis: Galicia, Hungary, Vienne\u003cbr\u003e12. The Collapse: Habsburg Jewry, Class by Class\u003cbr\u003e13. Conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix: The Jewish Population of Vienna, 1780-1918\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations used in notes and bibliography\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400635359575,"sku":"9780253206497","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253206497.jpg?v=1730471172","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-history-of-habsburg-jews-16701918-9780253206497","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}