| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 216 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Prologue: Jews and Intermarriage in Austria. The Problem of Intermarriage in the Third Reich. Jews and Intermarriage in Vienna before the Anschluß; Impact of the Anschluß; Nazi Policy Toward Families of Mixed Blood; The Initial Response of Mixed Families and the Consideration of Choices -- Contesting Racial Status: Successes and Failures. Irregularities in Nazi Racial Policy. The Dilemmas of Ancestral Proof. The Appellate Process; Administrative Appeals; Judicial Appeals. -- Intermarried Divorce, 1938-1945. The Option of Divorce: Choice or Coercion?. Marriage and Divorce in Austria, 1783-1938. Impact of the Anschluß and the Marriage Law of 1938. Intermarried Divorce: Political or Personal?; Preliminary Proceedings; Standardizing Procedures; Matrimonial Repeals and Annulments; Conventional Divorces. The Impact of Deportations to the East; Court Proceedings 1941-1945. Conclusions -- Tightening the Noose: Arrests, Deportations, and Forced Labor, 1941-1945. Berlins Renewed Assault on Intermarried Couples and Their Offspring. The Situation in Vienna: Local Initiatives and Official Policy; Gender Differences. The Assault on the Mischlinge, 1942-1943; Policing "Interracial" Love Affairs; Dissolving Legal "Mixed" Liaisons. Resistance?. The Viennese League of Mischlinge. Viennese Mischlinge before the Nazi Bench. Conscription and Compulsory Labor, 1943-1945 -- Epilogue and Conclusions |
| Summary |
"This study explores the experience of intermarried couples - marriages with Jewish and non-Jewish partners - and their children in Vienna after Germany's seizure of Austria in 1938"--Provided by publisher |
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"Evan Burr Bukey explores the experience of intermarried couples - marriages with Jewish and non-Jewish partners - and their children in Vienna after Germany's seizure of Austria in 1938. These families coped with changing regulations that disrupted family life, pitted relatives against each other, and raised profound questions about religious, ethnic, and national identity. Bukey finds that although intermarried couples lived in a state of fear and anxiety, many managed to mitigate, delay, or even escape Nazi sanctions. Drawing on extensive archival research, his study reveals how hundreds of them pursued ingenious strategies to preserve their assets, to improve their "racial" status, and above all to safeguard the position of their children. It also analyzes cases of intermarried partners who chose divorce as well as persons involved in illicit liaisons with non-Jews. Jews and Intermarriage in Nazi Austria concludes that although most of Vienna's intermarried Jews survived the Holocaust, several hundred Jewish partners were deported to their deaths and children of such couples were frequently subjected to Gestapo harassment"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Intermarriage -- Austria -- Vienna
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Jews -- Austria -- Vienna
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Interfaith marriage -- Austria -- Vienna
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
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Interfaith marriage
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Intermarriage
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Jews
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Austria -- Vienna
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511976742 |
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0511976747 |
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9780511992940 |
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0511992947 |
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9780511990939 |
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0511990936 |
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9780511987366 |
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0511987366 |
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