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Becoming Austrians - Jews and Culture between the World Wars (Paperback)
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Becoming Austrians - Jews and Culture between the World Wars (Paperback)
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The collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918 left all Austrians in a
state of political, social, and economic turmoil, but Jews in
particular found their lives shaken to the core. Although Jews'
former comfort zone suddenly disappeared, the dissolution of the
Dual Monarchy also created plenty of room for innovation and change
in the realm of culture. Jews eagerly took up the challenge to fill
this void, and they became heavily invested in culture as a way to
shape their new, but also vexed, self-understandings. By isolating
the years between the World Wars and examining formative events in
both Vienna and the provinces, Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture
between the World Wars demonstrates that an intensified marking of
people, places, and events as "Jewish" accompanied the crises
occurring in the wake of Austria-Hungary's collapse, with profound
effects on Austria's cultural legacy. In some cases, the
consequences of this marking resulted in grave injustices. Philipp
Halsmann, for example, was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of
his father years before he became a world-famous photographer. And
the men who shot and killed writer Hugo Bettauer and philosopher
Moritz Schlick received inadequate punishment for their murderous
deeds. But engagements with the terms of Jewish difference also
characterized the creation of culture, as shown in Hugo Bettauer's
satirical novel The City without Jews and its film adaptation,
other texts by Veza Canetti, David Vogel, A.M. Fuchs, Vicki Baum,
and Mela Hartwig, and performances at the Salzburg Festival and the
Yiddish theater in Vienna. By examining the lives, works, and deeds
of a broad range of Austrians, Lisa Silverman reveals how the
social codings of politics, gender, and nation received a powerful
boost when articulated along the lines of Jewish difference.
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