From Prejudice to Persecution

by Bruce F. Pauley

• ISBN13: 9780807819951
• ISBN10: 0807819956
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-11-09
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Abbreviations	p. xxv
A Note on Terminology	p. xxvii
The Eternal Scapegoat	p. 1
Anti-Semitism In The Austrian Empire	p. 11
The Historical Roots	p. 13
Austria's Jews On the Eve of The Great War	p. 45
A World Collapses	p. 61
Anti-Semitism In The Democratic Era	p. 73
Revolution And Retribution	p. 75
Academic Anti-Semitism In The Early Postwar Years	p. 89
Assassination And Intimidation	p. 102
Segregation And Renewed Violence	p. 117
The Varieties Of Austrian Anti-Semitism	p. 131
The Marxists	p. 133
The Roman Catholics	p. 150
The Minor Political Parties and Movements	p. 174
The Austrian Nazi Party	p. 190
Austria's Jews And The Anti-Semitic Threat	p. 205
The Jews In Austrian Society	p. 207
A House Divided Internal Jewish Politics	p. 221
The View From The South	p. 231
The Defense Against Anti-Semitism	p. 242
Friend or Foe? The Dollfuss-Schuschnigg Regime	p. 260
Deportation, Death And Deliverance	p. 275
From the Anschluss To Extermination	p. 277
Restitution and Recovery	p. 301
l: Finalthoughts	p. 318
Notes	p. 335
Bibliography	p. 377
Index	p. 403
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