Laboratory for world destruction : Germans and Jews in Central Europe
Lincoln
Published by University of Nebraska Press for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism )SICSA(, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2007
xiv, 404 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm
Studies in antisemitism
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]382[-389( and index
Robert S. Wistrich
Introduction : Jews and antisemitism in central European culture -- The ethnic cauldron of the Habsburg empire -- Adolf Fischof and the tragedy of liberalism -- Austro-Marxist interpretations of the "Jewish Question" -- Rosa Luxemburg, Polish socialism, and the Bund -- The strange odyssey of Nathan Birnbaum -- Max Nordau : from "degeneration" to "muscular Judaism" -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Germany, and the Jewish "Superman" -- Theodor Herzl : artist, politician, and social utopian -- In the footsteps of "King Messiah" -- The last testament of Dr. Sigmund Freud -- Stefan Zweig and the "World of yesterday" -- Karl Kraus : an anatomy of self-hatred -- Karl Lueger and Catholic judeophobia in Austria -- Adolf Hitler : the making of an antisemite