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Vienna and its Jews : the tragedy of success : 1880s-1980s /
Examines Jewish life in Vienna, outlining internal dissensions and conflicts between assimilationist and traditional Jews and focusing on the rise and evolution of modern Austrian antisemitism. Jews were attacked as both capitalists and Marxists, as racially inferior and as a corrupting element, fro...
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Cambridge, MA : Lanham, Md. :
Abt Books ; Madison Books,
©1988.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I: Vienna, 1900: Dream and Reality
- 1: Vienna Gloriosa
- 2: Vienna Dolorosa
- Part II: A Troubled Triumph
- 3: The Emergence of Jewish Vienna
- 4: Divisions, Dissensions, and Doubts
- Part III: The Attack Begins
- Prelude: A New Kind of Anti-Judaism
- 5: Seeds of Storm
- 6: A Cause and a Champion
- 7: Cresting Wave
- 8: The Mayor and the Knight
- Part IV: The Vienna of Herzl and Hitler
- 9: The Reign of Karl Lueger, Hitler's Mentor
- 10: Herzl: The Unwelcome Messiah
- 11: The Prewar Years
- Part V: War Within, War Without
- 12: The Two-Front War
- 13: From Empire to Republic
- 14: The Solitary Scapegoat
- 15: New Developments, Old Divisions
- 16: Summer Storms
- 17: Jews in the Late 1920s: The Halsman Case
- Part VI: Falling Curtain
- 18: The Spreading Swastika
- 19: The End of Austrian Democracy
- 20: Anti-Semitism on "Rubber-Soled Shoes"
- 21: Countdown
- Part VII: Paradise Lost
- 22: The Blitzverfolgung
- 23: A Closing Circle
- 24: Deportation and Destruction
- 25: "The Righteous Are Too Few"
- 26: Silent Pulpits
- 27: Birth of "The First Victim"
- Part VIII: Postwar Vienna: Dream and Reality II
- Prelude: Rebirth of a Community and a Country
- 28: Remembering to Forget
- 29: The City Without Jews
- Epilogue: The Answers.