From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism

FROM OUR EDITORS

Concentrating on the period between the start of WWI & the annexation of Austria in 1938, this book provides a history of Austrian anti-Semitism & the Jewish response to it from the Middle Ages to the present. Documents the widespread nature of anti-Jewish feeling in Austria, as well as the Jewish community's inability to respond. B&W photos & illus.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler's Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley's book explains this phenomenon by providing a history of Austrian anti-Semitism and Jewish responses to it from the Middle Ages to the present, with a particular focus on the period from 1914 to 1938. In contrast to works that view anti-Semitism as an inherent national characteristic, his account identifies many sources and varieties of the anti-Semitic sentiment that pervaded Austrian society on the eve of the Holocaust.

FROM THE CRITICS

Review American Historical

Well researched, provocative, and definitely worth reading. -- American Historical Review

German Studies Review