Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
41,2 (1994) 17-20
Keywords:
Bettauer, Hugo,
;
Antisemitism in literature
;
Jews
Abstract:
In this novel, published in 1922, the Austrian Jewish writer Bettauer (1872-1925) describes a fantastic situation: the government of the Austrian Republic expels the Jews from Vienna, and after a rapid economic decline and stagnation in cultural and intellectual life, is compelled to allow them to come back. The novel has shortcomings: instead of dispelling anti-Jewish prejudices about Jewish dominance in trade, industry, media and culture, it confirms them; some passages insult the national sentiments of Christian Austrians; Bettauer himself was not free of some antisemitic prejudice and contrasted native Austrian Jews, "decent and productive", with Eastern Jews. However, he succeeded in portraying the antisemitic sentiments in Austria at that time.
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