Crimes committed by Jews, especially ritual murders, have long
been favorite targets in the antisemitic press. This book
investigates popular and scientific conceptualizations of criminals
current in Austria and Germany at the turn of the last century and
compares these to those in the contemporary antisemitic discourse.
It challenges received historiographic assumptions about the
centrality of criminal bodies and psyches in late nineteenth- and
early twentieth-century criminology and argues that contemporary
antisemitic narratives constructed Jewish criminality not as a
biologico-racial defect, but rather as a coolly manipulative force
that aimed at the deliberate destruction of the basis of society
itself. Through the lens of criminality this book provides new
insight into the spread and nature of antisemitism in
Austria-Hungary around 1900. The book also provides a re-evaluation
of the phenomenon of modern Ritual Murder Trials by placing them
into the context of wider narratives of Jewish crime.
Daniel Mark Vyleta was educated in Germany, the USA and England.
He holds a PhD in History from King's College, University of
Cambridge. Currently, he serves as Assistant Professor in Foreign
Languages and Literature at the University of
Wisconisn-Milwaukee.
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