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The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph
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'The excellence of his book lies . . . in the high quality of scholarship, the sensitivity 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
'Fascinating . . . both encyclopedic and brilliantly researched and beyond question will remain . . . both interesting to general readers and useful to scholars . . . an important book.'
William McCagg, American Historical Review
'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.'
Frank Field, English Historical Review
'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
This highly acclaimed study depicts and evaluates in an original and imaginative fashion the 'Golden Age' of Viennese Jewry during the long reign of Emperor Franz Joseph II. Based on exhaustive and meticulous research, Professor Wistrich's reconstruction of the place of the Jews in the Austro-Hungarian Empire provides a multitude of new insights not only into the factors that accompanied its rise, but also into the ideological conflicts that have marked the twentieth century.
Robert S. Wistrich holds the Neuberger Chair of Modern European and Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is also Director of its Vidal Sassoon International Centre for the Study of Antisemitism. The recipient of many international awards, he is the author and editor of many books, including Socialism and the Jews: The Dilemmas of Assimilation in Germany and Austria-Hungary (1984), published by the Littman Library, as well as Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred, Understanding the Holocaust, Hitler and the Holocaust, Obsession: Radical Islam and the West, and Masters and Victims: Jewish Fate in Central Europe. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Oxford, and Brandeis universities and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.
| Format | 21.5 x 13.5 cm / 5.5" x 8.5" |
| Pages | 712 pages, 8 pages plates, 3 text figures, map |
| ISBN | 978-1-904113-49-2 |
| Price | £27.95 / $45.00 |
| Date of publication | 1989; 1990 paperback, re-issued 2006 |
Arnold Wiznitzer Prize for Jewish History 1989
Anton Gindely Staatspreis for the History of the Danubian Monarchy 1992
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