Published and distributed for the Vidal Sassoon International
Center for the Study of Antisemitism During the sixty years between
the founding of Bismarck's German Empire and Hitler's rise to
power, German-speaking Jews left a profound mark on Central Europe
and on twentieth-century culture as a whole. How would the modern
world look today without Einstein, Freud, or Marx? Without Mahler,
Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, or Kafka? Without a whole galaxy of other
outstanding Jewish scientists, poets, playwrights, composers,
critics, historians, sociologists, psychoanalysts, jurists, and
philosophers? How was it possible that this vibrant period in
Central European cultural history collapsed into the horror and
mass murder of the Nazi Holocaust? Was there some connection
between the dazzling achievements of these Jews and the ferocity of
the German backlash? Robert S. Wistrich's Laboratory for World
Destruction is a bold and penetrating study of the fateful
symbiosis between Germans and Jews in Central Europe, which
culminated in the tragic denouement of the Holocaust. Wistrich
shows that the seeds of the catastrophe were already sown in the
Hapsburg Empire, which would become, in Karl Kraus's words, "an
experimental station in the destruction of the world." Featured are
incisive chapters on Freud, Herzl, Lueger, Kraus, Nordau,
Nietzsche, and Hitler, along with a sweeping panorama of the golden
age of Central European Jewry before the lights went out in Europe.
Robert S. Wistrich holds the Neuberger Chair of Modern Jewish
History and since 2002 has been director of the Vidal Sassoon
International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. His book The Jews of Vienna in the Age of
Franz Joseph won the Austrian State History Prize, and his book
Hitler and the Holocaust has been translated into more than twenty
languages.
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