Language:
French
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Tsafon; revue d'études juives du Nord
Angaben zur Quelle:
86 (2023) 21-36
Keywords:
Bettauer, Hugo,
;
Antisemitism
;
Jews
;
Political parties History 20th century
Abstract:
The situation of the Jewish population in Austria and its reactions to antisemitism between the end of the First World War and the annexation of 1938 is the subject of this study. Vienna was home to 91% of the Austrian Jews during this period. In Austrian society, the antisemitic cultural code pervaded all social circles. The majority of Jews voted for the Social Democrats, who appeared to be the least antisemitic of the political parties in the First Austrian Republic and held the municipality of "Red Vienna" in their hands. Hugo Bettauer's political fiction novel The City without Jews (1922) is a premonitory representation of the threatening violence of antisemitism in Vienna. The Jewish population of Austria, in order to protect itself, tried to limit social interaction with its non-Jewish fellow citizens. The development of Zionist-inspired associations is an indication of this tendency of the Jewish social milieu to separate itself from the rest of Austrian society.
DOI:
10.4000/tsafon.12981
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