For a small, prosperous country in the middle of Europe, modern Austria has a very large and complex history, extending far beyond its current borders. Today's Austrians have a problematic relationship with that history, whether with the multi-national history of the Habsburg Monarchy, or with the t[...]
Part of the )Very Short Introduction( series, this examines why 'Jew-hatred' has been chillingly persistent throughout the last millennium. Discusses the role of figures such as Wagner, Nietzsche and Marx.[...]
This book studies the role played by Jews in the explosion of cultural innovation in Vienna at the turn of the century, which had its roots in the years following the Ausgleich of 1867 and its demise in the sweeping events of the 1930s. Dr Beller shows that, among the personnel of leading society, J[...]
Fin-de-siecle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of the century's modern culture. Our understanding of what happened in those key decades in Central Europe at the turn of the century has been shaped in the last years by an historiography presided over by Carl Schorske's Fin de Siecle Vienna[...]
I stället för en minskning av antisemitiska vanföreställningar, och trots ett alltmer inkluderande och
pluralistiskt Europa, har på senare tid en rad samverkande faktorer skapat en situation som judar och många andra, uppfattar som hotfull.
Hur kunde det bli så?