Austrian jews

מאמר זה בא לחקור במהות ספר "איסור והיתר הארוך", תוך שימת לב למנהגיו, על מנת לפתוח צוהר לשורשי מנהג אשכנז ומנהג פולין בענייני איסור והיתר. לאורך המאמר יתבררו תכונתו, דרכו, וטיבו של הספר, וכן יידונו שאלת מחברו ובית מדרשו. במאמר תבוא גם סקירה אודות דפוסי הספר והשינויים ביניהם. גם נספח למאמר הגהות הנדפסות לראשונה מרבי משה לוריא מווירמיישא על האיסור והיתר הארוך.

Una corona per Sion? Con questo titolo volutamente ambivalente la penna del giovane Kraus si chiede se un gesto umanitario possa e debba avere conseguenze politiche per le sorti degli ebrei europei. La sua disamina del sionismo politico è una delle più dissacranti descrizioni del nazionalismo ebraico e del suo fondatore: il “dandy” Theodor Herzl.

The 1908 Yiddish story “Toytntants” was the last creation of the young Galician author Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes before his transformation into S. Y. Agnon of the Land of Israel. The story, which can be understood as a farewell to the romantic-sentimental style identified by Agnon with his writing in Yiddish, was also his longest and most elaborate creation in either Yiddish or Hebrew up to the time of its writing. It stands in sharp contrast to the “single-storied” structure of Agnon's previous tales, some of which were even integrated into “Toytntants.” This article analyzes Agnon's use of “musicalization” in the text, a phenomenon that scholars have also identified in James Joyce's writings. When read in historical context, “Toytntants” reveals new aspects of the cultural atmosphere in which Agnon lived while he resided in Galicia.

The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust explores the motivations and expectations that inspired Viennese Jews to reestablish lives in their hometown after the devastation and trauma of the Holocaust. Elizabeth Anthony investigates their personal, political, and professional endeavors, revealing the contours of their experiences of returning to a post-Nazi society, with full awareness that most of their fellow Austrians had embraced the Nazi takeover and their country’s unification with Germany—clinging to a collective national identity myth as "first victim" of the Nazis. Anthony weaves together archival documentation with oral histories, interviews, memoirs, and personal correspondence to craft a multilayered, multivoiced narrative of return focused on the immediate postwar years.