World War I and the Jews

Marsha L. Rozenblit is the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Maryland.  She is the author of The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity (1983) and Constructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I (2001) and co-editor, with Pieter M. Judson, of Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe (2005).

• FiguresTablesMapsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: On the Significance of World War I and the JewsJonathan Karp and Marsha L. RozenblitPART I: OVERVIEWSChapter 1. World War I and its Impact on the Problem of Security in Jewish HistoryDavid EngelChapter 2. The European Jewish World 1914-1919: What Changed?Marsha RozenblitChapter 3. Jewish Diplomacy and the Politics of War and PeaceCarole FinkPART II: LOCAL STUDIESChapter 4. Bravery in the Borderlands, Martyrs on the Margins: Jewish War Heroes and World War I Narratives in France, 1914-1940Erin CorberChapter 5. The Budapest Jewish Community’s Galician OctoberRebekah Klein-PejšováChapter 6. Confronting the Bacterial Enemy: Public Health, Philanthropy, and Jewish Responses to Typhus in Poland, 1914-1921Daniel RosenthalChapter 7. The Union of Jewish Soldiers under Soviet RuleMihály KálmánChapter 8. Global Conflict, Local Politics: The Jews of Salonica and World War IParis Papamichos ChronakisChapter 9. Recounting the Past, Shaping the Future: Ladino Literary Representations of World War IDevi MaysChapter 10. Women and the War: The Social and Economic Impact of World War I on Jewish Women in the Traditional Holy Cities of PalestineMichal Ben Ya’akovChapter 11. Baghdadi Jews in the Ottoman Military during World War IReeva Spector SimonChapter 12. Unintentional Pluralists: Military Policy, Jewish Servicemen, and the Development of Tri-Faith America during World War IJessica CoopermanChapter 13. American Yiddish Socialists at the Wartime Crossroads: Patriotism and Nationalism versus Proletarian InternationalismGennady EstraikhChapter 14. Louis Marshall during World War I: Change and Continuity in Jewish Culture and PoliticsM.M. SilverIndex

“The book is a powerful statement of the transformations that affected Jews, particularly the post-war settlement… it is highly recommended to anyone interested in Jewish history, to anyone interested in the war, and to those who study early twentieth century history in the areas covered.” • European Review of History“Any student or scholar of World War I, Jewish history, and twentieth-century nationalism will appreciate this impressive edited volume.” • European History Quarterly“This volume fills a crucial research gap in modern Jewish history, contains excellent essays by senior and junior scholars, and makes a convincing case why the ‘Great War’ marked a crucial turning point in modern Jewish history on both sides of the Atlantic.” • Tobias Brinkmann, The Pennsylvania State University