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This volume offers a fresh and original collection of primary
sources on interwar European fascist movements. These sources
reflect new approaches to fascism that emphasize the practical,
transnational experience of fascism as a social movement,
contextualising ideological statements within the historical
moments they were produced. Divided into 18 geographically based
chapters, contributors draw together the history of various fascist
and right-wing movements, selecting sources that reflect themes
such as transnational ties, aesthetics, violence, female activism,
and the instrumentalisation of race, gender, and religion. Each
chapter provides a chronological, narrative account of movements
interspersed with complete primary sources, from political
speeches, internal movement circulars and articles, police reports,
oral history, songs and music, photographs, artworks, poetry, and
anti-fascist sources. The volume as a whole seeks to introduce
readers to the diversity of fascist groups across the continent, to
show how fascist groups were constituted through social bonds,
rather than around fixed ideologies, and to capture the
inexperience and ad hoc character of early fascist groups. With an
Introduction that explains the volume’s theoretical approach and
elaborates on the chronology of European fascism, this is the
perfect sourcebook for any student of Modern European history and
politics
This volume offers a fresh and original collection of primary
sources on interwar European fascist movements. These sources
reflect new approaches to fascism that emphasize the practical,
transnational experience of fascism as a social movement,
contextualising ideological statements within the historical
moments they were produced. Divided into 18 geographically based
chapters, contributors draw together the history of various fascist
and right-wing movements, selecting sources that reflect themes
such as transnational ties, aesthetics, violence, female activism,
and the instrumentalisation of race, gender, and religion. Each
chapter provides a chronological, narrative account of movements
interspersed with complete primary sources, from political
speeches, internal movement circulars and articles, police reports,
oral history, songs and music, photographs, artworks, poetry, and
anti-fascist sources. The volume as a whole seeks to introduce
readers to the diversity of fascist groups across the continent, to
show how fascist groups were constituted through social bonds,
rather than around fixed ideologies, and to capture the
inexperience and ad hoc character of early fascist groups. With an
Introduction that explains the volume’s theoretical approach and
elaborates on the chronology of European fascism, this is the
perfect sourcebook for any student of Modern European history and
politics
During the First World War, the Jewish population of Central Europe
was politically, socially, and experientially diverse, to an extent
that resists containment within a simple historical narrative.
While antisemitism and Jewish disillusionment have dominated many
previous studies of the topic, this collection aims to recapture
the multifariousness of Central European Jewish life in the
experiences of soldiers and civilians alike during the First World
War. Here, scholars from multiple disciplines explore rare sources
and employ innovative methods to illuminate four interconnected
themes: minorities and the meaning of military service,
Jewish-Gentile relations, cultural legacies of the war, and memory
politics.
During the First World War, the Jewish population of Central Europe
was politically, socially, and experientially diverse, to an extent
that resists containment within a simple historical narrative.
While antisemitism and Jewish disillusionment have dominated many
previous studies of the topic, this collection aims to recapture
the multifariousness of Central European Jewish life in the
experiences of soldiers and civilians alike during the First World
War. Here, scholars from multiple disciplines explore rare sources
and employ innovative methods to illuminate four interconnected
themes: minorities and the meaning of military service,
Jewish-Gentile relations, cultural legacies of the war, and memory
politics.
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 This book is the
first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German
Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War.
Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish
soldiers who served in the German military (12,000 of whom died),
as well as the various activities Jewish communities supported at
home, such as raising funds for the war effort and securing vital
food supplies. However, Grady's research goes much deeper: he shows
that German Jews were never at the periphery of Germany's warfare,
but were in fact heavily involved. The author finds that many
German Jews were committed to the same brutal and destructive war
that other Germans endorsed, and he discusses how the conflict was
in many ways lived by both groups alike. What none could have
foreseen was the dangerous legacy they created together, a legacy
that enabled Hitler's rise to power and planted the seeds of the
Holocaust to come.
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