Diaspora nationalism and Jewish identity in Habsburg Galicia
By: Joshua Shanes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781107014244
Subjects: Politics and government; Ethnic relations; Jews; HISTORY / Europe / General; History
Description: "This book explains the construction of the Jewish nation in Galicia, the process by which traditional Jews modernized, and the variety of identities they adopted"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Galician Jewry under Habsburg rule: the first century, 1772-1883; 2. Neither Germans nor Poles: Jewish nationalism before Herzl, 1883-96; 3. Building a nation of readers: the emergence of a Yiddish populist press in Galicia; 4. A broadening audience: organizational and ideological change, 1896-1904; 5. The 1907 parliamentary elections and the rise of Jewish mass politics.