Reconstructing a National Identity The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I

by Rozenblit, Marsha L.

• ISBN13: 9780195134650
• ISBN10: 0195134656
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book explores the impact of war and political crisis on the national identity of Jews, both in the multinational Habsburg monarchy and in the new nation-states that replaced it at the end of World War I. Jews enthusiastically supported the Austrian war effort because it allowed them toassert their Austrian loyalties and Jewish solidarity at the same time. They faced a grave crisis of identity when the multinational state collapsed and they lived in nation-states mostly uncomfortable with ethnic minorities. This book raises important questions about Jewish identity and about thegeneral nature of ethnic and national identity.

Author Biography

Marsha L. Rozenblit is the Harvey Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Place-name Equivalents
Introduction	p. 3
The Jews of Austria-Hungary on the Eve of World War I	p. 14
Austrian Jews and the Spirit of 1914	p. 39
Mobilizing the Home Front: Patriotic War Work and Helping Jewish Refugees	p. 59
The Experience of Jewish Soldiers	p. 82
Clinging to the Old Identity, 1916-1918	p. 106
The Dissolution of the Monarchy and the Crisis of Jewish Identity, October 1918-June 1919	p. 128
Epilogue	p. 162
Notes	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 229
Index	p. 245
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