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.

• PrefaceList of illustrationsPart I The Community1From the Ghetto to Revolution2Migration to the Kaiserstadt3Philanthropy, Politics, and the Ostjuden4Three Viennese Preachers5Liberalism, Deutschtum, and Assimilation6Parvenus, Patriots, and Protected JewsPart II Self-Defence against Antiseimitism7The New Austrian Antisemitism8Adolf Jellinek and the Liberal Response9Joseph Bloch: Rabbi, Parliamentarian, and Publicist10The Austrian Israelite UnionPart III The Rise of Zionism11Kadimah and Jewish Student Nationalism12The Metamorphoses of Nathan Birnbaum13Theodor Herzl: The Making of a Political Messiah14Zionism and its Jewish CriticsPart IV Culture and Identity15Prophets of Doom: Karl Kraus and Otto Weininger16The Jewish Identity of Sigmund Freud17Arthur Schnitzler’s Road to the Open18Imperial Sawn-Song: From Stefan Zweig to Joseph RothSelected BibliographyGlossary of terms not explained in the textIndex

‘Fascinating . . . both encyclopedic and brilliantly researched and beyond question will remain, far longer than several other recent productions concerning turn-of-the-century Viennese Jewry, both interesting to general readers and useful to scholars . . . an important book.’- William McCagg, American Historical Review