Albert S. Lindemann
Autore di The Jew Accused: Three Anti-Semitic Affairs
Sull'Autore
Albert S. Lindemann is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Fonte dell'immagine: from UC, Santa Barbara faculty page
Opere di Albert S. Lindemann
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Lindemann, Albert Shirk
- Altri nomi
- Shirk, Albert E.
- Data di nascita
- 1938-05-19
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
Pasadena, California, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Istruzione
- Pomona College (BA | 1960)
Harvard University (MA | 1962)
Harvard University (PhD | 1968) - Attività lavorative
- historian
History professor, University of California, Santa Barbara - Organizzazioni
- American Federation of Teachers
American Association of University Professors
American Historical Association
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Utenti
- 178
- Popolarità
- #120,889
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 21
The main theme is the flight of poor religious Jews from the Russian Pale of Settlement and Galicia to Vienna, Budapest, Germany and to a lesser extent the United States, France and Great Britain. They were searching for economic opportunity and served as an irritant to the already successful Jewish communities, particularly those in Germany and Austria who were keen on integration and were "more German than the Germans".
German stability from 1870 onwards was built around the Prussian Junker aristocracy with the root of the anti-semitic problem located elswhere in the terminally unstable pre WWI Austro-Hungarian empire, particularly the capital city Vienna. It's Germans, Czechs, Hungarians etc. were at loggerheads in a dysfunctional parliament and into this situation came a massive influx of poor religious urban Jews adding to an already dominant educated Jewish presence.
As Lindemann says, "The rise of the Jews in Austria-Hungary may well have been the most sudden , impressive rise of Jews in modern history."
He quotes a German-Jewish writer who had moved to Vienna from the German Reich, "....all public life was dominated by Jews. The banks, the press, the theater, literature, social organizations, all lay in the hands of the Jews.... The aristocracy would have nothing to do with such things.... The small number of untitled patrician families imitated the aristocracy; the original upper-middle class had disappeared..... The court, the lower middle class and the Jews gave the city its stamp. And that the Jews, as the most mobile group, kept all the others in continual motion is, on the whole, not surprising."
The Jewish press ferociously attacked any criticism of Jews but the dam finally broke with the election of Karl Lueger as mayor of Vienna who opportunistically picked up the anti-Jewish lower middle class and working class vote.
Lindemann shows how the proportion of Jews in dominant positions in society, business and the professions became a critical factor in anti-semitism (e.g. among the Germans of Vienna who had until recently filled these roles) and the degree to which Jews avoided anti-semitism by integrating and abandoning traditional religious and marriage rules. In the highly anti-semitic 1930's the smaller number of integrated Jews of Italy experienced almost no anti-semitism. They lived in Italian society as Italians from a Jewish background rather than as Jews living in Italy.
It's difficult to do justice to the quality of this book in illuminating such a dark area of history.… (altro)