Becoming Austrians
Subtitle: Jews and culture between the World Wars
By: Lisa D. Silverman
Publisher: New York Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780199794843
Subjects: Jews; Social conditions; Intellectual life; Antisemitism; Ethnic relations; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The price of inclusion: Austria's First Republic and the Jews; title: Courts of injustice: four trials, three murders, two Jews; title: Stadt ohne Jüdinnen: absent Jews and invisible women in the city without Jews; title: Vienna's Jewish geography: the Leopoldstadt in interwar literature; title: Searching for redemption: the Salzburg Festival meets Yiddish theater.