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The first account of the experience of Viennese Jewry during the First World War, exploring the wartime crises of Jewish ideology and identity.

Examines Jewish life in Vienna, outlining internal dissensions and conflicts between assimilationist and traditional Jews and focusing on the rise and evolution

Rechter (Oxford U.) explores the crisis of ideology and identity undergone by the Viennese Jewish community during the traumatic war years and in making the tra

World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their patriotism, to dispel antisemitic myths about Jewish coward

Ablaze with excitement, effervescent with creativity—late nineteenth-century Vienna was the ideal site for this analysis of the ways in which a sizable and si