The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph
'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  'Parmi les plus recent ouvrages, signalons l'etude fondamentale de Robert S. Wistrich ...'   P. Ginewski, Diaspora  'Monumental ... hugely informative.'   Norman Lebrecht, Jewish Chronicle  'Wistrich combines such a wealth of information, such elegance of style, and such maturity of judgement, that one reads his book with considerable intellectual pleasure. His final section, on culture and identity ... is so enjoyable that one regrets that Wistrich did not take the story down to 1938.'   Frank Field, English Historical Review  'Masterly'   John Warren, Immigrants and Minorities  'Masterly ... He does indeed provide a detailed and multi-faceted picture, highlighting the diversity of the community and its concomitant tensions. It is a serious and detailed historical work ... a book which has rightly been described by Professor Peter Pulzer as  the standard work for some time to comeA".'   Alastair Falk, Le'ela  'The excellence of his book lies ... in the high quality of scholarship, the sensivity 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  'Exemplary scholarly analysis ... the first well-written, reliable study of its kind, it vindicates the centrality of Jewishness and anti-semitism ... in the evolution of nineteenth-century Austro-German politics and culture.'   New York Times Book Review  'Comprehensive and detailed ... at its best in recounting the internal struggles within Viennese Jewry, and the second of its four parts, dealing with the decline of liberalism, the rise of Zionism, and the campaigns of Bloch and his Osterreichische-Israelitische Union can be particularly recommended.'   Peter Pulzer, Polin