Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph

Robert S. Wistrich was Neuberger Professor of Modern European and Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also Director of its Vidal Sassoon International Centre for the Study of Antisemitism. The recipient of many international awards, he was the author and editor of several books, including Socialism and the Jews: The Dilemmas of Assimilation in Germany and Austria-Hungary (1984), published by the Littman Library, as well as Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred, Understanding the Holocaust, Hitler and the Holocaust, Obsession: Radical Islam and the West, and Masters and Victims: Jewish Fate in Central Europe. He died in 2015.

• Preface List of illustrationsPart I The Community 1 From the Ghetto to Revolution 2 Migration to the Kaiserstadt 3 Philanthropy, Politics, and the Ostjuden 4 Three Viennese Preachers 5 Liberalism, Deutschtum, and Assimilation 6 Parvenus, Patriots, and Protected JewsPart II Self-Defence against Antiseimitism 7 The New Austrian Antisemitism 8 Adolf Jellinek and the Liberal Response 9 Joseph Bloch: Rabbi, Parliamentarian, and Publicist 10 The Austrian Israelite UnionPart III The Rise of Zionism 11 Kadimah and Jewish Student Nationalism 12 The Metamorphoses of Nathan Birnbaum 13 Theodor Herzl: The Making of a Political Messiah 14 Zionism and its Jewish CriticsPart IV Culture and Identity 15 Prophets of Doom: Karl Kraus and Otto Weininger 16 The Jewish Identity of Sigmund Freud 17 Arthur Schnitzler’s Road to the Open 18 Imperial Sawn-Song: From Stefan Zweig to Joseph RothSelected Bibliography Glossary of terms not explained in the text Index

‘The excellence of his book lies . . . in the high quality of scholarship, the sensitivity to nuance, the desire to map the entire Jewish response to the crisis of the empire in all its complexity.’- {::}New York Review of Books