The Jews of Vienna and the First World War. By David  Rechter. London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001. Pp. xiii+218. $45.00.Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I. By Marsha L.  Rozenblit. Studies in Jewish History. Edited by, Jehuda  Reinharz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv+257. $49.95.

2003 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 731-735
Author(s):  
Maureen Healy
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
World War I ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World ◽  
Oxford University Press

The Jews of Vienna and the First World War. London: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001. xiii, 218 pp.; Marsha L. Rozenblit. Reconstructing National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I. Studies in Jewish History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 304 pp.

AJS Review ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-376
Author(s):  
Harriet Pass Freidenreich
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
National Identity ◽  
World War I ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
First World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Considerable attention has been focused on Habsburg Jewry, especially the Jews of Vienna, before World War I. Several works have also dealt with the Jews of Austria and the other Habsburg successor states during the interwar years. Until now, no books have explored in depth the experiences of Austrian Jewry during the First World War. This past year, however, two books, Marsha L. Rozenblit's Reconstructing National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I and David Rechter's The Jews of Vienna and the First World War, appeared to fill this lacuna in the scholarly literature. Although these books cover the same period and share much the same material, their scope and approach are very different.

THE LAST YEARS OF THE HABSBURG MONARCHY Hitler's Vienna: a dictator's apprenticeship. By Brigitte Hamann. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 512. ISBN 0-19-512537-1. £25.00. The undermining of Austria-Hungary: the battle for hearts and minds. By Mark Cornwall. Hampshire and London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 2000. Pp. 504. ISBN 0-333-80452-X. £57.50. The Habsburg Monarchy, c. 1765–1918: from enlightenment to eclipse. By Robin Okey. New York: St Martin's Press, 2001. Pp. 456. ISBN 0-312-23375-2. £55.50. The Jews of Vienna and the First World War. By David Rechter. London and Portland, OR: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001. Pp. 232. ISBN 1-874774-65-X. £29.50. Reconstructing a national identity: the Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I. By Marsha L. Rozenblit. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 266. ISBN 0-19-513465-6. £47.50.

2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 471-478
Author(s):  
DANIEL UNOWSKY
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World ◽  
Oxford University Press

At least since Carl Schorske published Fin-de-siècle Vienna in 1981, the cultural explosion of Vienna 1900 has attracted the attention of scholars in many fields. Yet, the glittering imperial capital also incubated the Social Darwinian racist vision of Adolf Hitler, and Vienna's modern music, literature, and visual arts could not prevent the melting away of the Habsburg state at the close of the First World War. The five books under review explore the last years of the Habsburg Monarchy. The authors look beyond familiar topics, question basic scholarly assumptions, and provide fresh perspectives on the monarchy's final decade.

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