Language:
French
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Austriaca; cahiers universitaires d'information sur l'Autriche
Angaben zur Quelle:
26 (1988) 73-82
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Jews
Abstract:
Surveys the history of the Jews in Vienna from Roman times to the Anschluss. Mentions the discriminatory statute of 1267 (by Emperor Rudolf II) and the expulsions of 1420, 1627, and 1670. The tolerance decree of Emperor Joseph II at the end of the 18th century attracted large numbers of Jewish immigrants, many of them from Galicia, whose traditionalism contrasted with the assimilatory trends of Viennese Jews. Attacks by racists against "Jewish" capitalism and liberalism, as well as against the immigrant proletariat, set off a wave of antisemitism leading, among other things, to the exclusion of Jewish students from university associations in 1882. The anti-Jewish trend gained momentum again in the 1930s. After the Anschluss, the Jewish communal institution, the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, was preserved in order to facilitate forced emigration and deportation.
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