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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822655403321

Autore

Shanes Joshua <1971->

Titolo

Diaspora nationalism and Jewish identity in Habsburg Galicia / / Joshua Shanes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-139-56429-3

1-139-88743-2

1-283-57491-8

1-139-55073-X

9786613887368

1-139-55569-3

1-139-55198-1

1-139-01364-5

1-139-54948-0

1-139-55444-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

HIS010000

Disciplina

305.892/40438609034

Soggetti

Jews - Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) - History - 18th century

Jews - Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) - History - 19th century

Jews - Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) - History - 20th century

Zionism - Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)

Nationalism - Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)

Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) Politics and government 18th century

Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) Politics and government 19th century

Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) Politics and government 20th century

Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Galician Jewry under Habsburg rule: the first century, 1772-1883 -- 2. Neither Germans nor Poles: Jewish nationalism in Galicia before Herzl, 1883-1896 -- 3. Building a nation of readers: the emergence of a Yiddish populist press -- 4. A broadening audience: organizational



and ideological change, 1896-1904 -- 5. Fort mit den Hausjudent!: The 1907 parliamentary elections and the rise of Jewish mass politics.

Sommario/riassunto

The triumph of Zionism has clouded recollection of competing forms of Jewish nationalism vying for power a century ago. This study explores alternative ways to construct the modern Jewish nation. Jewish nationalism emerges from this book as a Diaspora phenomenon much broader than the Zionist movement. Like its non-Jewish counterparts, Jewish nationalism was first and foremost a movement to nationalize Jews, to construct a modern Jewish nation while simultaneously masking its very modernity. Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Habsburg Galicia traces this process in what was the second largest Jewish community in Europe, Galicia. The history of this vital but very much understudied community of Jews fills a critical lacuna in existing scholarship while revisiting the broader question of how Jewish nationalism - or indeed any modern nationalism - was born. Based on a wide variety of sources, many newly uncovered, this study challenges the still-dominant Zionist narrative by demonstrating that Jewish nationalism was a part of the rising nationalist movements in Europe.