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Becoming Habsburg - The Jews of Habsburg Bukovina, 1774-1918 (Hardcover, New)
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Becoming Habsburg - The Jews of Habsburg Bukovina, 1774-1918 (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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The region of Habsburg Bukovina no longer exists in central Europe,
save in the realms of historiography, nostalgia, and collective
memory. Remembered for its remarkable multinational, multi-faith
character, Bukovina and its capital city Czernowitz have long been
presented as exemplars of inter-ethnic cooperation, political
moderation, and cultural dynamism, with Jews regarded as
indispensable to the region's character and vitality. While this is
not mere rhetoric, the myth of Bukovina as an El Dorado for Jews
demands closer inspection. This important new book conveys the
special nature of Bukovina Jewry while embedding it in the broader
historical frameworks of Galician, imperial Austrian, and east
central European Jewish societies. Carefully tracing the evolution
of the tangled relationship of state and society with the Jews,
from the Josephinian Enlightenment through absolutism to
emancipation, the book brings to light the untold story of the
Jewish minority in the monarchy's easternmost province, often a
byword for economic backwardness and cultural provincialism. Here,
at the edge of the Habsburg monarchy, Jews forged a new society
from familiar elements, a unique hybrid of eastern and western
European Jewries. Bukovina Jewry was both and neither: its history
can help us understand the crucial east/west fault line within
European Jewry in the modern era. *** "Argues that Bukovina served
as a unique site for Jewish integration. Its diverse character,
frontier setting, and balance among its different ethnic groups
created the conditions necessary for the development of the
'supranational society' idealized in the politics of the Habsburg
Empire. These conditions in turn enabled the formation of a unique
form of Jewish society . . . written in fluid, readable prose that
will appeal to both beginners and more advanced readers." - J.
Haus, Choice, Vol. 51, No. 6, February 2014
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