Language:
German
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Deutsch-jüdische Presse und jüdische Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
I (2008) 229-246
Keywords:
Birnbaum, Nathan,
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Jüdisches Archiv; Mitteilungen des Komitees 'Jüdisches Kriegsarchiv'
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World War, 1914-1918 Participation, Jewish
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Jews History 20th century
;
Jewish periodicals History 20th century
;
Antisemitism History 20th century
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Vienna (Austria)
Abstract:
Discusses the aims and the content of the "Jüdisches Archiv", a journal published five times between 1915-17 by a Jewish committee in Vienna. Headed by Robert Stricker and Nathan Birnbaum, the journal strove to provide material on the monarchy’s disputed Eastern Territories and on Jewish war refugees in western Austria. The documentation aimed to convince Austrian authorities to improve the political and economic status of these Jews and to obtain recognition for them as a national minority in a reformed Habsburg monarchy. The Jewish committee hoped that factual reports from the war zones would protect Jews from antisemitic attacks. The journal emphasized the heroism of the Jewish soldiers, as well as the loyalty of the Jews of Galicia and Bukovina to Austria, an issue which served as a pretext for Russian anti-Jewish measures. The journal also hoped to raise sympathy for the thousands of war refugees (among them many Jews) who flowed into western Austria, as well as for 8,000 other Jewish refugees in Austria, who were subject to antisemitic discrimination. Jewish refugees in Vienna were accused of usury, lacking hygiene and culture, and aggravating food and housing shortages. The "Jüdisches Archiv" also discussed antisemitism, or lack thereof, in the Austrian and other armies at war. Concludes that the journal was disappointed in its hopes that recognition of Jewish heroism would change the perception of the Jews as cowardly and treacherous.
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