Laboratory for world destruction: Germans and Jews in Central Europe
Introduction : Jews and antisemitism in central European culture -- The ethnic cauldron of the Habsburg empire -- Adolf Fischof and the tragedy of liberalism -- Austro-Marxist interpretations of the "Jewish Question" -- Rosa Luxemburg, Polish socialism, and the Bund -- The strange odyssey...
| Summary: | Introduction : Jews and antisemitism in central European culture -- The ethnic cauldron of the Habsburg empire -- Adolf Fischof and the tragedy of liberalism -- Austro-Marxist interpretations of the "Jewish Question" -- Rosa Luxemburg, Polish socialism, and the Bund -- The strange odyssey of Nathan Birnbaum -- Max Nordau : from "degeneration" to "muscular Judaism" -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Germany, and the Jewish "Superman" -- Theodor Herzl : artist, politician, and social utopian -- In the footsteps of "King Messiah" -- The last testament of Dr. Sigmund Freud -- Stefan Zweig and the "World of yesterday" -- Karl Kraus : an anatomy of self-hatred -- Karl Lueger and Catholic judeophobia in Austria -- Adolf Hitler : the making of an antisemite |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [382]-389) and index |
| Physical Description: | XIV, 404 S, Ill., Kt, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0803211341 |