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Author Silverman, Lisa, 1969-

Title Becoming Austrians : Jews and culture between the World Wars / Lisa Silverman
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Contents The price of inclusion: Austria's First Republic and the Jews -- Courts of injustice: four trials, three murders, two Jews -- Stadt ohne Jüdinnen: absent Jews and invisible women in the city without Jews -- Vienna's Jewish geography: the Leopoldstadt in interwar literature -- Searching for redemption: the Salzburg Festival meets Yiddish theater
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 16, 2012)
Subject Jews -- Austria -- History -- 20th century
Jews -- Austria -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Jews -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 20th century
Antisemitism -- Austria
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Antisemitism
Ethnic relations
Intellectual life
Jews
Jews -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Vienna (Austria) -- Ethnic relations
Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Subject Austria
Austria -- Vienna
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199950072
0199950075
9780199794881
019979488X