Laboratory for world destruction : Germans and Jews in Central Europe
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Lincoln
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Published by University of Nebraska Press for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism )SICSA(, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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2007
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiv, 404 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm
SERIES
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Studies in antisemitism
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references )p. ]382[-389( and index
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Robert S. Wistrich
CONTENTS NOTE
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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