Description

This book explores the impact of war and political crisis on the national identity of Jews, both in the multinational Habsburg monarchy and in the new nation-states that replaced it at the end of World War I. Jews enthusiastically supported the Austrian war effort because it allowed them to assert their Austrian loyalties and Jewish solidarity at the same time. They faced a grave crisis of identity when the multinational state collapsed and they lived in nation-states mostly uncomfortable with ethnic minorities. This book raises important questions about Jewish identity and about the general nature of ethnic and national identity.

Reviews

"...an important volume on Austrian Jews that cannot be ignored by anyone who deals with their history."--Studies in Contemporary Jewry

"The concept of Austrian Jewry's tripartite identity is an imaginative analytical tool....Rozenblit's study is indispensable reading for historians of Habsburg Jewry and the Habsburg monarchy in general...it can be profitably read by historians of World War I and those interested in ethnic and national identity."--Austrian History Yearbook

Product Details

272 pages; 3 maps & 11 halftones; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-517630-8ISBN10: 0-19-517630-8

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