The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph

by Robert S. Wistrich

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904113492
Publisher:	The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	06/29/2006
Series:	Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	712
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Robert S. Wistrich was Neuberger Professor of Modern European and Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also Director of its Vidal Sassoon International Centre for the Study of Antisemitism. The recipient of many international awards, he was the author and editor of several books, including Socialism and the Jews: The Dilemmas of Assimilation in Germany and Austria-Hungary (1984), published by the Littman Library, as well as Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred, Understanding the Holocaust, Hitler and the Holocaust, Obsession: Radical Islam and the West, and Masters and Victims: Jewish Fate in Central Europe. He died in 2015.

Editorial Reviews

"The excellence of his book lies ... in the high quality of scholarship, the sensitivity to nuance, the desire to map the entire Jewish response to the crisis of the empire in all its complexity." — New York Review of Books

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