Laboratory for world destruction : Germans and Jews in Central Europe / Robert S. Wistrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wistrich, Robert S., 1945-2015.

Series:

Studies in antisemitism (Unnumbered)

Studies in antisemitism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany--History--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Germany--History--20th century.

Jews in public life.

Antisemitism.

History.

Germany.

Jews--Europe, Central--History.

Antisemitism--Germany.

Antisemitism--Europe, Central.

Jews in public life--Germany--Biography.

Jews in public life--Europe, Central--Biography.

Germany--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Europe, Central--Ethnic relations.

Europe, Central.

Central Europe.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 404 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : Published by University of Nebraska Press for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction : Jews and antisemitism in central European culture

The ethnic cauldron of the Habsburg empire

Adolf Fischof and the tragedy of liberalism

Austro-Marxist interpretations of the "Jewish Question"

Rosa Luxemburg, Polish socialism, and the Bund

The strange odyssey of Nathan Birnbaum

Max Nordau : from "degeneration" to "muscular Judaism"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Germany, and the Jewish "Superman"

Theodor Herzl : artist, politician, and social utopian

In the footsteps of "King Messiah"

The last testament of Dr. Sigmund Freud

Stefan Zweig and the "World of yesterday"

Karl Kraus : an anatomy of self-hatred

Karl Lueger and Catholic judeophobia in Austria

Adolf Hitler : the making of an antisemite.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [382]-389) and index.

ISBN:

9780803211346

0803211341

OCLC:

70630402

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