Jewish soldiers in the collective memory of Central Europe : the remembrance of World War I from a Jewish perspective / edited by Gerald Lamprecht, Eleonore Lappin-Eppel, Ulrich Wyrwa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lamprecht, Gerald, editor.

Lappin-Eppel, Eleonore, editor.

Wyrwa, Ulrich, editor.

Series:

Schriften des Centrums für Jüdische Studien ; Bd. 28.

Schriften des Centrums für Jüdische Studien ; Band 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Jews--Europe, Central.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Jewish.

Jewish soldiers--Europe--History--20th century.

Jewish soldiers.

Collective memory.

Ethnic relations.

Jews.

Military participation--Jewish.

Social aspects.

History.

Central Europe.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wien : Böhlau Verlag, [2019]

Summary:

World War I marks a huge break in Central European Jewish history. Not only had the violent wartime events destroyed Jewish life and especially the living space of Eastern European Jews, but the impacts of war, the geopolitical change and a radicalization of anti-Semitism also led to a crisis of Jewish identity. Furthermore, during the process of national self-discovery and the establishing of new states the societal position of the Jews and their relationship to the state had to be redefined. These partially violent processes, which were always accompanied by anti-Semitism, evoked Jewish and Gentile debates, in which questions about Jewish loyalty to the old and/or new states as well as concepts of Jewish identity under the new political circumstances were negotiated. This volume collects articles dealing with these Jewish and gentile debates about military service and war memory in Central Europe.

Contents:

Conflict zones : empire, war, and Jewish destinies in East Central Europe / Hillel J. Kieval

The dialectic of expectations and experiences : Jews in Europe during the First World War and beyond / Ulrich Wyrwa

Soldiers. "Even a Jew can fight back" : masculinity, comradeship, and German-Jewish soldiers in the First World War / Jason Crouthamel

Austro-Hungarian Jewish military chaplains between East and West : Rabbi Bernard Dov Hausner (1874-1938) during World War I / Dieter J. Hecht

Hungarian Neolog (progressive) Rabbis during the "Great War" (1914-1918) / Gábor Schweitzer

The image of the Jewish soldier-intellectual in Múlt és Jövő, the Hungarian review promoting Jewish cultural renaissance (1914-1918) / Eszter Balázs

Reflections on the Jewish war effort in the Viennese Jewish press, 1918-1938 / Eleonore Lappin-Eppelemory in Central Europe. Literary notes and historical documents : Shimon An-Ski's Yiddish togbukh fun khurbn (1921-23) and Simon Dubinov's Russian Story of a Jewish soldier (1917) / Olaf Terpitz

Refugees. Wandering Lithuanian Jewish refugees during the First World War : Hirsz Abramowicz and a Jewish perspective on the war / Gintarė Malinauskaitė

Familiar strangers? : perceptions of Galician- and Bucovinian-Jewish refugees in the Czech-Jewish press and fiction during the First World War / Ines Koeltzsch

New loyalties. Dual loyalties of Jewish soldiers in the Ukrainian Galician Army 1918/1919 / Nino Gude

Yugoslavs of the Mosaic faith? : public discourse about Jewish loyalty in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1918-1941 / Ana Ćirić Pavlović

Antisemitism. The Jewish soldiers of Austria-Hungary in the Austrian Parliament debates during World War I and the post-war years (1917-1920) / Thomas Stoppacher "Jewish reign of terror?" : campaigns against Jewish officers and antisemitism in Slovakia during the period of the First Czechoslovak Republic / Miloslav Szabó

Memory. "To mothers of the twelve thousand" : Max Liebermann and the commemoration of front-line Jewish soldiers in the First World War / Hildegard Frübis

Jewish soldiers in Austrian collective memory 1914 to 1938 / Gerald Lamprecht

Fallen Jewish soldiers in Croatia during the First World War / Ljiljana Dobrovšak

Jewish war memory as a local community building project : the Heroes' Memorial in Prešov, Slovakia / Veronika Szeghy-Gayer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783205207221

320520722X

OCLC:

1090689536

Publisher Number:

9783205207221