T G Masaryk And The Jewish Question

Author : Miloš Pojar
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9788024638799

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T. G. Masaryk and the Jewish Question by Miloš Pojar Pdf

An English translation of a successful title by the first post-1989 Czech ambassador to Israel, Miloš Pojar. The book is a result of the author’s life-long interest in this difficult and taboo theme. Starting with the first publication of the samizdat collection, TGM and Our Present Day, Czech anti-Semitism has been newly researched in a broad context. This book presents a useful summary of Tomás Garrigue Masaryk’s stances from his writings and political activities, including a detailed description of the historic first visit of the head of the state to Palestine in 1927. The English edition contains a preface by Shlomo Avineri and a personal essay by Petr Pithart.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Jews
ISBN : NWU:35556009708744

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Thomas G. Masaryk and the Jews by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ernst Rychnovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCAL:$C218173

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Thomas G. Masaryk and the Jews, Ba Collection of Essays, with 13 Illustrations and Facsimiles by Ernst Rychnovsky Pdf

Author : Robert B. Pynsent,George Kolankiewicz,Stanley B. Winters
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349203666

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T.G.Masaryk (1850-1937) by Robert B. Pynsent,George Kolankiewicz,Stanley B. Winters Pdf

Between the wars a personality cult grew around Masaryk. These three volumes constitute the first balanced critical assessment of the actual achievement of the university professor who became the first president of Czechoslovakia. In this the first volume scholars from Europe and North America offer new insights into the career and ideas of Masaryk during the three decades preceding the outbreak of World War I. They appraise his role as critic of injustice and outworn tradition, providing a most significant interpretation of his place in modern history.

Author : Stanley B. Winters,Robert B. Pynsent,Harry Hanak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN : UOM:39015016999388

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T.G. Masaryk (1850-1937).: Thinker and critic by Stanley B. Winters,Robert B. Pynsent,Harry Hanak Pdf

Between the wars a personality cult grew around Masaryk. These three volumes constitute the first balanced critical assessment of the actual achievement of the university professor who became the first president of Czechoslovakia. In this the first volume scholars from Europe and North America offer new insights into the career and ideas of Masaryk during the three decades preceding the outbreak of World War I. They appraise his role as critic of injustice and outworn tradition, providing a most significant interpretation of his place in modern history.

Author : H Gordon Skilling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349133925

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T. G. Masaryk: Against the Current, 1882–1914 by H Gordon Skilling Pdf

This study of T.G. Masaryk deals with his pre-1914 career as a professor and persistent dissenter. For three decades he was a constant and unrelenting critic of conventional wisdom, established institutions and customary practices in Bohemia and Austria-Hungary. At every stage he was a radical dissident in all questions of public life as well as in private matters: religion, the nationality problem the place of women, labour and the social question, parliament and government in the Monarchy, its foreign affairs and foreign policy institutions, education, the courts and legal system, the Catholic Church, and clericalism, the university establishment, Czech politics and Czech political parties, the interpretations of Czech history, and anti-semitism.

Author : Robert S. Wistrich
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803208698

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Laboratory for World Destruction by Robert S. Wistrich Pdf

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.

Author : Dan Vyleta
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1845451813

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Crime, Jews and News by Dan Vyleta Pdf

Examines the discourse in the press on Jewish crime at the turn of the 19th century - in an epoch when criminal and court-room reports became very popular and attracted a wide audience. The period 1895-1914 was marked by the development of criminal science, which attempted to find psychological and physical abnormalities identifying the "born" criminal, and by a rise in racist antisemitism. Theories of a Jewish propensity to crime were circulated. Remarkably, racial antisemitism affected the press accounts on Jewish criminals, or Jewish "accomplices" (defense attorneys, etc.) of non-Jewish criminals, only to a small degree. Of all the antisemitic narratives on Jewish criminality, the antisemitic press used mainly the image of the Jew as a rational and cunning criminal actor, coolly acting out a crime that was collective and conspiratorial in nature. Even when reporting on sexual crimes and "white slave trafficking", the papers never stressed sexual motives of Jewish defendants but only their callous greed. Dwells on the ritual murder trial of Hilsner in Bohemia, and shows the extent to which the perception of this case and even the course of the trial were affected by the press. The reports of the antisemitic press on Jewish criminality was intended for antisemitic "believers" and did not affect non-antisemites; however, this press had a great number of readers. In the Nazi period, the narrative on Jewish criminality acquired blatantly racial motifs.

Author : Daniel Mark Vyleta
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857455949

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Crime, Jews and News by Daniel Mark Vyleta Pdf

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.

Author : Irene Aue-Ben David,Aya Elyada,Moshe Sluhovsky,Christian Wiese
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110664867

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Jews and Protestants by Irene Aue-Ben David,Aya Elyada,Moshe Sluhovsky,Christian Wiese Pdf

The book sheds light on various chapters in the long history of Protestant-Jewish relations, from the Reformation to the present. Going beyond questions of antisemitism and religious animosity, it aims to disentangle some of the intricate perceptions, interpretations, and emotions that have characterized contacts between Protestantism and Judaism, and between Jews and Protestants. While some papers in the book address Luther’s antisemitism and the NS-Zeit, most papers broaden the scope of the investigation: Protestant-Jewish theological encounters shaped not only antisemitism but also the Jewish Reform movement and Protestant philosemitic post-Holocaust theology; interactions between Jews and Protestants took place not only in the German lands but also in the wider Protestant universe; theology was crucial for the articulation of attitudes toward Jews, but music and philosophy were additional spheres of creativity that enabled the process of thinking through the relations between Judaism and Protestantism. By bringing together various contributions on these and other aspects, the book opens up directions for future research on this intricate topic, which bears both historical significance and evident relevance to our own time.

Author : Kateřina Čapková
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857454751

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Czechs, Germans, Jews? by Kateřina Čapková Pdf

The phenomenon of national identities, always a key issue in the modern history of Bohemian Jewry, was particularly complex because of the marginal differences that existed between the available choices. Considerable overlap was evident in the programs of the various national movements and it was possible to change one’s national identity or even to opt for more than one such identity without necessarily experiencing any far-reaching consequences in everyday life. Based on many hitherto unknown archival sources from the Czech Republic, Israel and Austria, the author’s research reveals the inner dynamic of each of the national movements and maps out the three most important constructions of national identity within Bohemian Jewry – the German-Jewish, the Czech-Jewish and the Zionist. This book provides a needed framework for understanding the rich history of German- and Czech-Jewish politics and culture in Bohemia and is a notable contribution to the historiography of Bohemian, Czechoslovak and central European Jewry.

Author : Martin Wein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004301276

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History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands by Martin Wein Pdf

In History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands, Martin Wein traces the interaction of Czechs and Jews, but also of German-speakers, Slovaks, and other groups in the Bohemian lands and in Czechoslovakia throughout the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Martin Wein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317608219

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A History of Czechs and Jews by Martin Wein Pdf

Was Israel founded by Czechoslovakia? A History of Czechs and Jews examines this question and the resulting findings are complex. Czechoslovakia did provide critical, secret military sponsorship to Israel around 1948, but this alliance was short-lived and terminated with the Prague Trial of 1952. Israel’s "Czech guns" were German as much as Czech, and the Soviet Union strongly encouraged Czechoslovakia’s help for Israel. Most importantly however, the Czechoslovak-Israeli military cooperation was only part of a much larger picture. Since the mid-1800s, Czechs and Jews have been systematically comparing themselves to each other in literature, music, politics, diplomacy, media, and historiography. A shared perception of similar fates of two small nations trapped between East and West, in constant existential danger, helped forge a Czech-Jewish "national friendship" amid periods of estrangement. Yet, this Czech-Jewish national friendship, an idea that can be traced from Masaryk and Kafka via Weizman and Ben Gurion to Havel and Netanyahu, was more myth than reality. Relations were often mixed and highly dependent on larger historical developments affecting Central Europe and the Middle East. As the Czech Republic emerges as Israel’s main EU ally, this book provides a timely analysis of this old-new alliance and is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in History and Jewish Studies.

Author : Marsha L. Rozenblit
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Austria
ISBN : 9780195176308

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Reconstructing a National Identity by Marsha L. Rozenblit Pdf

This book explores the impact of war and political crisis on the national identity of Jews, both in the multinational Habsburg monarchy and in the new nation-states that replaced it at the end of World War I. Jews enthusiastically supported the Austrian war effort because it allowed them to assert their Austrian loyalties and Jewish solidarity at the same time. They faced a grave crisis of identity when the multinational state collapsed and they lived in nation-states mostly uncomfortable with ethnic minorities. This book raises important questions about Jewish identity and about the general nature of ethnic and national identity.

Author : Aviel Roshwald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134682539

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Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires by Aviel Roshwald Pdf

Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires is a wide-ranging comparative study of the origins of today's ethnic politics in East Central Europe, the former Russian empire and the Middle East. Centred on the First World War Era, Ethnic Nationalism highlights the roles of historical contingency and the ordeal of total war in shaping the states and institutions that supplanted the great multinational empires after 1918. It explores how the fixing of new political boundaries and the complex interplay of nationalist elites and popular forces set in motion bitter ethnic conflicts and political disputes, many of which are still with us today. Topics discussed include: * the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian empire * the ethnic dimension of the Russian Revolution and Soviet state building * Nationality issues in the late Ottoman empire * the origins of Arab nationalism * ethnic politics in zones of military occupation * the construction of Czechoslovak and Yugoslav identities Ethnic Nationalism is an invaluable survey of the origins of twentieth-century ethnic politics. It is essential reading for those interested in the politics of ethnicity and nationalism in modern European and Middle Eastern history.