A NTISEMITISM IN G ALICIAA USTRIAN AND H ABSBURG S TUDIES
General Editor: Howard Louthan, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota
Before 1918, Austria and the Habsburg lands constituted an expansive multinational and multiethnic empire, the second largest state in Europe, and a key site for cultural and intellectual developments across the continent. At the turn of the twentieth century, the region gave birth to modern psychology, philosophy, economics, and music, and since then has played an important mediating role between Western and Eastern Europe, today participating as a critical member of the European Union. The volumes in this series address specific themes and questions around the history, culture, politics, social, and economic experiences of Austria, the Habsburg Empire, and its successor states in Central and Eastern Europe.
Recent volumes:
Volume 29
Antisemitism in Galicia: Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Tim Buchen
Volume 28
Revisiting Austria: Tourism, Space, and National Identity, 1945 to the Present
Gundolf Graml
Volume 27
Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries: The Entangled Nationalization of Names and Naming in a Late Habsburg Borderland
goston Berecz
Volume 26
Men under Fire: Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 19141918
Ji Huteka
Volume 25
Nationalism Revisited: Austrian Social Closure from Romanticism to the Digital Age
Christian Karner
Volume 24
Entangled Entertainers: Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Sicle Vienna
Klaus Hdl
Volume 23
Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna
Heidi Hakkarainen
Volume 22
Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918
Edited by Paul Miller and Claire Morelon
Volume 21
The Art of Resistance: Cultural Protest against the Austrian Far Right in the Early Twenty-First Century
Allyson Fiddler
Volume 20
The Monumental Nation: Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-Sicle Hungary
Blint Varga
For a full volume listing, please see the series page on our website: http://berghahnbooks.com/series/austrian-habsburg-studies.
A NTISEMITISM IN G ALICIA
Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Tim Buchen
Translated from the German by Charlotte Hughes-Kreutzmller
Published in 2020 by
Berghahn Books
www.berghahnbooks.com
Enblish-language edition
2020 Berghahn Books
German-language edition
2012 Metropol Verlag
Originally published in German as
Antisemitismus in Galizien: Agitation, Gewalt und Politik gegen Juden in der Habsburgermonarchie um 1900
The translation of this work was funded by Geisteswissenschaften InternationalTranslation Funding for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office, the collecting society VG WORT, and the Brsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers & Booksellers Association).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Buchen, Tim, author. | Hughes-Kreutzmller, Charlotte, translator.
Title: Antisemitism in Galicia: Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy / Tim Buchen; translated from the German by Charlotte Hughes-Kreutzmller.
Description: First edition. | New York: Berghahn Books, [2020] | Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies; volume 29 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020017482 (print) | LCCN 2020017483 (ebook) | ISBN 9781789207705 (hardback) | ISBN 9781789207712 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: AntisemitismAustriaHistory19th century. | AntisemitismGalicia (Poland and Ukraine)History. | JewsAustriaHistory19th century. | Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)Politics and government19th century.
Classification: LCC DS135.A9 B8313 2020 (print) | LCC DS135.A9 (ebook) | DDC 305.892/40438609034dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020017482
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020017483
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ISBN 978-1-78920-770-5 hardback
ISBN 978-1-78920-771-2 ebook
To my high school teachers who ignited my fascination for history
P REFACE TO THE E NGLISH E DITION
T his book is a translation of the German title Antisemitismus in Galizien: Agitation, Gewalt und Politik gegen Juden in der Habsburgermonarchie um 1900, published with Metropol Verlag in 2012 as part of the Antisemitismus in Europa series. Thanks to a generous Geisteswissenschaften International translation funding, it was possible to present my findings and ideas on antisemitism in Galicia to a wider international audience by publishing it in English as well. I was very grateful that Berghahn Books and the former series editor Gary Cohen accepted it for inclusion in the Austrian and Habsburg Studies, a series that I have read and used intensely for both research and teaching over so many years.
Of course, the original German and the actual English version are not identical. Readers of a study in a German series on European antisemitism most likely have different expectations and knowledge than readers of a book appearing in a series on Habsburg history in English do. Therefore, the introduction on historical background and on the state of art of researching antisemitism is much shorter here. As a couple of years have passed since I finished the German version, I obviously had to include some studies that had been published on the topic since. Of course, I erased mistakes and errors that reviewers had identified, and I also engaged with their thoughts and criticisms where possible. A big thank you to all who read the book carefully and responded in journals in German, English, and Polish.