Title: Becoming Austrians : Jews and culture between the World Wars /
Authors: Silverman, Lisa, 1969-
Publisher: New York Oxford University Press,,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Jews Austria History; Jews Austria Social conditions; Jews Austria Vienna History; Antisemitism Austria; Vienna (Austria) Intellectual life; Vienna (Austria) Ethnic relations.
Abstract: By isolating the years between the World Wars and examining formative events in both Vienna and the provinces, this book demonstrates that an intensified marking of people, places, and events as 'Jewish' accompanied the crises occurring in the wake of Austria-Hungary's collapse, leaving profound effects on Austria's cultural legacy.
Contents: The price of inclusion: Austria's First Republic and the Jews -- Courts of injustice: four trials, three murders, two Jews -- Stadt ohne Jüdinnen: absent Jews and invisible women in the city without Jews -- Vienna's Jewish geography: the Leopoldstadt in interwar literature -- Searching for redemption: the Salzburg Festival meets Yiddish theater.