According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler's Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley's book explains this phenomenon by providing a history of Austrian anti-Semitism and Jewish responses to it from the Middle Ages to the present, with a particular focus on the period from 1914 to 1938. In contrast to works that view anti-Semitism as an inherent national characteristic, his account identifies many sources and varieties of the anti-Semitic sentiment that pervaded Austrian society on the eve of the Holocaust.
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It is one of the best books on antisemitism ever written.
Jerusalem Post
Well researched, provocative, and definitely worth reading.
American Historical Review
This portrayal of Austrian anti-Semitism is a fair, ambitious, and expansive overview.
Austrian History Yearbook
Provides a fascinating picture of Austrian Jews and anti-Semites.
Times Literary Supplement
[Pauley's analysis of] anti-Semitism is more complete because he deals as well with the variety of responses among Jews.
Catholic Historical Review
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A history of Austrian anti-Semitism—and the Jewish responses to it—since the Middle Ages, with particular focus on the 1914-1938 period. This study identifies many sources and varieties of the anti-Semitism that has pervaded Austria.
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Anti-Semitism in Austria, as in other European countries prior to the end of the Second World War, took so many different forms that, like the term fascism, it almost defies definition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nationalistic students, anatomy institute, numerus clausus, communal elections, nationalist students, warrant for genocide, early postwar years Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Austrian Jews, Christian Social Party, Die Wahrheit, University of Vienna, First World War, United States, Austrian Nazi Party, First Republic, Austrian Nazis, Social Democratic Party, Viennese Jews, Greater German People's Party, Third Reich, German Jews, Deutsche Studentenschaft, Nazi Germany, Roman Catholic, Social Democrats, Central Europe, Leopold Kunschak, Orthodox Jews, Austrian Parliament, Eastern Europe, New York, Deutsche Arbeiter-Presse New!
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Anti-Semitism in Austria, as in other European countries prior to the end of the Second World War, took so many different forms that, like the term fascism, it almost defies definition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nationalistic students, anatomy institute, numerus clausus, communal elections, nationalist students, warrant for genocide, early postwar years Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Austrian Jews, Christian Social Party, Die Wahrheit, University of Vienna, First World War, United States, Austrian Nazi Party, First Republic, Austrian Nazis, Social Democratic Party, Viennese Jews, Greater German People's Party, Third Reich, German Jews, Deutsche Studentenschaft, Nazi Germany, Roman Catholic, Social Democrats, Central Europe, Leopold Kunschak, Orthodox Jews, Austrian Parliament, Eastern Europe, New York, Deutsche Arbeiter-Presse New!
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- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler on 16 pages
- A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson on 11 pages
- The Jews in Weimar Germany by Donald L. Niewyk on 9 pages
- Jews, Antisemitism and Culture in Vienna by Ivar Oxaal on 7 pages
- Last Waltz in Vienna by George Clare on 6 pages
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- Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna by Matti Bunzl in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Staging the Holocaust: The Shoah in Drama and Performance (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre) by Claude Schumacher on page 284, and Back Matter
- Jews in Twentieth-Century Ireland by Dermot Keogh in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Forced Out: The Fate of Polish Jewry in Communist Poland by Arthur J. Wolak in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism by David I. Kertzer in Back Matter
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