Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe

by Judson, Pieter M.; Rozenblit, Marsha L.

• ISBN13: 9781571811769
• ISBN10: 1571811761
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

"The hundred years between the revolutions of 1848 and the population transfers of the mid-twentieth century saw the nationalization of culturally complex societies in East Central Europe. This fact has variously been explained in terms of modernization, state building, and nation-building theories, each of which treats the process of nationalization as something inexorable, a necessary component of modernity. Although more recently social scientists gesture to the contingencies that may shape these larger developments, this structural approach makes scholars far less attentive to the "hard work" (ideological, political, social) undertaken by individuals and groups at every level of society who tried themselves to build "national" societies." "The essays in this volume make us aware of how complex, multi-dimensional and often contradictory this nationalization process in East Central Europe actually was. The authors document attempts and failures by nationalist politicians, organizations, activists, and regimes from 1848 through 1948 to give East-Central Europeans a strong sense of national self-identification. They remind us that only the use of dictatorial powers in the 20th century could actually transform the fantasy of nationalization into a reality, albeit a brutal one."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	ix
List of Illustrations	x
Preface	xi
by Gary B. Cohen
Notes on Contributors	xiv
Introduction: Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe	1	(177)
Pieter M. Judson
1. From Tolerated Aliens to Citizen-Soldiers: Jewish Military Service in the Era of Joseph II	19	(18)
Michael K. Silber
2. The Revolution in Symbols: Hungary in 1848-1849	37	(13)
Robert Nemes
3. Nothing Wrong with My Bodily Fluids: Gymnastics, Biology, and Nationalism in the Germanies before 1871	50	(11)
Daniel A. McMillan
4. Between Empire and Nation: The Bohemian Nobility, 1880-1918	61	(28)
Eagle Glassheim
5. The Bohemian Oberammergau: Nationalist Tourism in the Austrian Empire	89	(18)
Pieter M. Judson
6. The Sacred and the Profane: Religion and Nationalism in the Bohemian Lands, 1880-1920	107	(19)
Cynthia Paces and Nancy M. Wingfield
7. All For One! One for All! The Federation of Slavic Sokols and the Failure of Neo-Slavism	126	(15)
Claire E. Nolte
8. Staging Habsburg Patriotism: Dynastic Loyalty and the 1898 Imperial Jubilee	141	(16)
Daniel Unowsky
9. Arbiters of Allegiance: Austro-Hungarian Censors during World War I	157	(21)
Alon Rachamimov
10. Sustaining Austrian "National" Identity in Crisis: The Dilemma of the Jews in Habsburg Austria, 1914-1919	178	(14)
Marsha L. Rozenblit
11. "Christian Europe" and National Identity in Interwar Hungary	192	(11)
Paul Hanebrink
12. Just What is Hungarian? Concepts of National Identity in the Hungarian Film Industry, 1931-1944	203	(20)
David Frey
13. The Hungarian Institute for Research into the Jewish Question and Its Participation in the Expropriation and Expulsion of Hungarian Jewry	223	(20)
Patricia von Papen-Bodek
14. Indigenous Collaboration in the Government General: The Case of the Sonderdienst	243	(24)
Peter Black
15. Getting the Small Decree: Czech National Honor in the Aftermath of the Nazi Occupation	267	(16)
Benjamin Frommer
Index	283