Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I

ISBN-13: 9780195176308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 272 str.

Marsha L. Rozenblit

Opis

This book explores the impact of war and political crisis on the national identity of Jews, both in the multinational Habsburg monarchy and in the new nation-states that replaced it at the end of World War I. Jews enthusiastically supported the Austrian war effort because it allowed them to assert their Austrian loyalties and Jewish solidarity at the same time. They faced a grave crisis of identity when the multinational state collapsed and they lived in nation-states mostly uncomfortable with ethnic minorities. This book raises important questions about Jewish identity and about the general nature of ethnic and national identity.

Recenzje

"By exploring the sociology and psychology of identity formation, as well as its politics, Rozenblit casts an illuminating beam on one of the enduring problems of European history in a manner that makes for engrossing reading." - -The Journal of Interdisciplinary History