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Transgressing Boundaries
Since the 1970s, the Centers for Austrian Studies, which were founded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research, have played an important role for the Austrian and international scientific community. Their tasks are to promote studies on Austria and Central Europe through their host nations, as well as to give Austrian students the possibility to conduct research abroad and to get in touch with the local scientific community. This volume contains reports on the activities of these institutions in the academic year 2012/2013, as well as working papers of some their most promising PhD students. Their research presented in the book covers various aspects of Central European history in modern times, ranging from the 17th century to the present. (Series: Europa Orientalis - Vol. 14)
Music and Exile
Fresh research on the experiences of music and musicians in exile from Nazi Europe, exploring refugee experiences in Europe, the USA, Australia and Shanghai, the role of institutions, and the reception of individual creative work during and after the Second World War.
Connected Histories
The World Wide Web (WWW) and digitisation have become important sites and tools for the history of the Holocaust and its commemoration. Today, some memory institutions use the Internet at a high professional level as a venue for self-presentation and as a forum for the discussion of Holocaust-related topics for potentially international, transcultural and interdisciplinary user groups. At the same time, it is not always the established institutions that utilise the technical possibilities and potential of the Internet to the maximum. Creative and sometimes controversial new forms of storytelling of the Holocaust or more traditional ways of remembering the genocide presented in a new way with...
Nightclub City
Illustrated with archival photographs of the clubs and the characters who frequented them, this book is a dark and dazzling study of New York's bygone nightlife.
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From Enemy to Brother
In 1965 the Second Vatican Council declared that God loves the Jews. Before that, the Church had taught for centuries that Jews were cursed by God and, in the 1940s, mostly kept silent as Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis. How did an institution whose wisdom is said to be unchanging undertake one of the most enormous, yet undiscussed, ideological swings in modern history? The radical shift of Vatican II grew out of a buried history, a theological struggle in Central Europe in the years just before the Holocaust, when a small group of Catholic converts (especially former Jew Johannes Oesterreicher and former Protestant Karl Thieme) fought to keep Nazi racism from entering their newfound chur...
Vanishing Vienna
In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna’s cultural history across this period and a framework for interpreting Viennese culture that relies on antisemitism, philosemitism, and a related discourse of Jewish presence and absence. This observation demands a new chronology of cultural reconstruction that links the Nazi and postwar years, and a new geography that includes the history of refugees from Nazi Vienna. Rather than presenting the Nazi, exile, and postwar periods as discrete chapters of Vienna’s history, Tanzer argues that they are part of ...
Des Führers heimliche Vasallen
Der Juliputsch 1934 wurde in der NS-Zeit identitätsstiftender Mythos, in der Zweiten Republik zum Tabu. Im Lavanttal artete er zu einem regelrechten Bürgerkrieg aus. Doch wer waren die »heimlichen Vasallen« des Führers, die hinter dem rasanten Aufstieg der NSDAP in Unterkärnten und dem blutigen Umsturzversuch standen? Als der nationalsozialistische Putschversuch am Abend des 25. Juli 1934 in Wien bereits gescheitert war, stand der Aufstand in Kärnten noch bevor. Innerhalb weniger Stunden konnten ca. 1.300 Putschisten das gesamte Lavanttal für wenige Tage unter ihre Kontrolle bringen. Nirgendwo in Österreich beherrschten die Nationalsozialisten ein Territorium von vergleichbarer Größe. Der Historiker Christian Klösch rekonstruiert die Vorgeschichte und schildert die Geschehnisse des Bürgerkriegs. Anhand von Lebensgeschichten der Protagonisten des Putsches stellt er die Folgen für die Bevölkerung, die Karrieren der Putschisten, die persönlichen Netzwerke und die Kontinuität der lokalen Eliten über die verschiedenen politischen Systeme hinweg bis in die jüngste Vergangenheit dar.
