Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Aschkenas; Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden
Angaben zur Quelle:
18-19,1 (2008-2009) 59-89
Keywords:
Straucher, Benno,
;
Kellner, Leon,
;
Jews
;
Jews
;
Zionism
;
Jews Political activity
;
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
;
Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine)
Abstract:
The "Jüdische Volksrat" (founded in 1911) in Bukovina was the expression of a distinctive brand of Jewish "Volkspolitik" that flourished in the final decade of Habsburg Austria. This article is a case study of a political culture that derived from two related contexts: Jewish nationalism - in its east central European variation - and the larger framework of Habsburg ethnic and nationalist politics. The "Volksrat" was the centerpiece of an attempt to put the Zionist house in Bukovina in order, and the article is also a first foray into the history of Bukovina Zionism. It is a story of famous success and infamous failure and conflict. If the stage was parochial, the issues at stake were not: power, autonomy, democracy, Zionism and Jewish nationalism - all were at play and all had local, regional and imperial implications.
DOI:
10.1515/asch.2009.006
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