Diaspora nationalism and Jewish identity in Habsburg Galicia / Joshua Shanes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shanes, Joshua, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--History--18th century.

Jews.

Jews--Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--History--19th century.

Jews--Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--History--20th century.

Zionism--Galicia (Poland and Ukraine).

Zionism.

Nationalism--Galicia (Poland and Ukraine).

Nationalism.

Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--Politics and government--18th century.

Galicia (Poland and Ukraine).

Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--Politics and government--19th century.

Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--Politics and government--20th century.

Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Diaspora Nationalism & Jewish Identity in Habsburg Galicia

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The triumph of Zionism has clouded recollection of competing forms of Jewish nationalism vying for power a century ago. This study explores alternative ways to construct the modern Jewish nation. Jewish nationalism emerges from this book as a Diaspora phenomenon much broader than the Zionist movement. Like its non-Jewish counterparts, Jewish nationalism was first and foremost a movement to nationalize Jews, to construct a modern Jewish nation while simultaneously masking its very modernity. Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Habsburg Galicia traces this process in what was the second largest Jewish community in Europe, Galicia. The history of this vital but very much understudied community of Jews fills a critical lacuna in existing scholarship while revisiting the broader question of how Jewish nationalism - or indeed any modern nationalism - was born. Based on a wide variety of sources, many newly uncovered, this study challenges the still-dominant Zionist narrative by demonstrating that Jewish nationalism was a part of the rising nationalist movements in Europe.

Contents:

1. Galician Jewry under Habsburg rule: the first century, 1772-1883

2. Neither Germans nor Poles: Jewish nationalism in Galicia before Herzl, 1883-1896

3. Building a nation of readers: the emergence of a Yiddish populist press

4. A broadening audience: organizational and ideological change, 1896-1904

5. Fort mit den Hausjudent!: The 1907 parliamentary elections and the rise of Jewish mass politics.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-56429-3

1-139-88743-2

1-283-57491-8

1-139-55073-X

9786613887368

1-139-55569-3

1-139-55198-1

1-139-01364-5

1-139-54948-0

1-139-55444-1

OCLC:

810531437