
Intersections between Jewish Studies and Habsburg Studies
Tim CorbettMirjam ThulinMoritz CsákyKlaus HödlVerena Kasper-MarienbergIlya BerkovichJohannes CzakaiAlicja Maslak-MaciejewskaMartin StechaunerLida-Maria DodouFelicitas Heimann-JelinekOmar NasrMonika HalbingerMagdalena JánosikováKatrin KeßlerAnthony D. KaudersZora PiskacováRafael ArnoldMichael K. SchulzSusanne WeigandMichelle TusanHava Tirosh-SamuelsonCheuck Him Ryan SunSean SidkyElana Shapira(Author)
Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Published on 25. March 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
202 pages
978-3-86956-574-3 (ISBN)
Description
In the aftermath of the Shoah and the ostensible triumph of nationalism, it became common in historiography to relegate Jews to the position of the "eternal other" in a series of binaries: Christian/Jewish, Gentile/Jewish, European/Jewish, non-Jewish/Jewish, and so forth. For the longest time, these binaries remained characteristic of Jewish historiography, including in the Central European context. Assuming instead, as the more recent approaches in Habsburg studies do, that pluriculturalism was the basis of common experience in formerly Habsburg Central Europe, and accepting that no single "majority culture" existed, but rather hegemonies were imposed in certain contexts, then the often used binaries are misleading and conceal the complex and sometimes even paradoxical conditions that shaped Jewish life in the region before the Shoah.
The very complexity of Habsburg Central Europe both in synchronic and diachronic perspective precludes any singular historical narrative of "Habsburg Jewry," and it is not the intention of this volume to offer an overview of "Habsburg Jewish history." The selected articles in this volume illustrate instead how important it is to reevaluate categories, deconstruct historical narratives, and reconceptualize implemented approaches in specific geographic, temporal, and cultural contexts in order to gain a better understanding of the complex and pluricultural history of the Habsburg Empire and the region as a whole.
The very complexity of Habsburg Central Europe both in synchronic and diachronic perspective precludes any singular historical narrative of "Habsburg Jewry," and it is not the intention of this volume to offer an overview of "Habsburg Jewish history." The selected articles in this volume illustrate instead how important it is to reevaluate categories, deconstruct historical narratives, and reconceptualize implemented approaches in specific geographic, temporal, and cultural contexts in order to gain a better understanding of the complex and pluricultural history of the Habsburg Empire and the region as a whole.
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Language
English
German
Place of publication
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
307 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-86956-574-3 (9783869565743)
DOI
10.25932/publishup-62207
Schweitzer Classification