Vienna and its Jews : the tragedy of success : 1880s-1980s / George E. Berkley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berkley, George E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Austria--Vienna--History.

Jews.

Vienna (Austria)--Ethnic relations.

Vienna (Austria).

Ethnic relations.

Austria--Vienna.

Antisemitism--Austria--Vienna.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Vienna.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Abt Books ; Lanham, Md. : Madison Books, ©1988.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

Examines Jewish life in Vienna, outlining internal dissensions and conflicts between assimilationist and traditional Jews and focusing on the rise and evolution of modern Austrian antisemitism. Jews were attacked as both capitalists and Marxists, as racially inferior and as a corrupting element, from the time of Christian Socialist Karl Lueger to Hitler and the Nazi period. Describes the Holocaust period, the persecution and deportation of Austria's Jews, and the unwillingness of Austrians to deal with their Nazi and anti-Jewish past after the war, as shown by their reluctance to bring war criminals to trial and by Kurt Waldheim's election as president. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).

Contents:

pt. I: Vienna, 1900: Dream and Reality

1: Vienna Gloriosa

2: Vienna Dolorosa

Part II: A Troubled Triumph

3: The Emergence of Jewish Vienna

4: Divisions, Dissensions, and Doubts

Part III: The Attack Begins

Prelude: A New Kind of Anti-Judaism

5: Seeds of Storm

6: A Cause and a Champion

7: Cresting Wave

8: The Mayor and the Knight

Part IV: The Vienna of Herzl and Hitler

9: The Reign of Karl Lueger, Hitler's Mentor

10: Herzl: The Unwelcome Messiah

11: The Prewar Years

Part V: War Within, War Without

12: The Two-Front War

13: From Empire to Republic

14: The Solitary Scapegoat

15: New Developments, Old Divisions

16: Summer Storms

17: Jews in the Late 1920s: The Halsman Case

Part VI: Falling Curtain

18: The Spreading Swastika

19: The End of Austrian Democracy

20: Anti-Semitism on "Rubber-Soled Shoes"

21: Countdown

Part VII: Paradise Lost

22: The Blitzverfolgung

23: A Closing Circle

24: Deportation and Destruction

25: "The Righteous Are Too Few"

26: Silent Pulpits

27: Birth of "The First Victim"

Part VIII: Postwar Vienna: Dream and Reality II

Prelude: Rebirth of a Community and a Country

28: Remembering to Forget

29: The City Without Jews

Epilogue: The Answers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-405).

Other Format:

Online version: Berkley, George E. Vienna and its Jews.

ISBN:

0819168165

9780819168160

OCLC:

17440564