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Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish identity

Title

Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish identity / Daniel Aschheim.

Author

Aschheim, Daniel, 1988-

Publication

New Orleans : University of New Orleans Press, [2022]
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Additional Authors

Bischof, Günter, 1953-

Description

225 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"The personal and professional life of Bruno Kreisky (1911-1990), Austria's long-serving Socialist chancellor from August 1970 to May 1983, has been the focus of many books and articles. However, his ambiguous and complex relationship to his Jewishness, the State of Israel, and Zionism, as well as his connections to his overall political project and global aspirations, remain only partially researched. This book studies and analyzes these more systematically and comprehensively and places Kreisky in a comparative perspective with other twentieth-century European Jewish politicians who attained similar pinnacles of power. At the same time, the book will show that Bruno Kreisky was among the most influential and controversial political leaders since World War II. The book revolves around understanding and illuminating the myriad ways in which Kreisky's Jewishness was-or was not-a formative factor in his treatment of "Jewish" questions within Austrian politics, Austrian-Israeli relations, and his active engagement in Middle Eastern affairs. This deeper understanding mainly emerges through examining Kreisky's actions during several pivotal events like the Kreisky-Peter-Wiesenthal affair, the Waldheim affair, the 1973 Marchegg incident, and his overall relationship to Zionism, the State of Israel, and the Palestinian Arab world. This book is not a comprehensive biography of Kreisky. Instead, it attempts to document and place Kreisky's fraught engagement with his Jewishness and the related sensitive issues that touched upon it in a historical, political, ideological, and personal context. This mainly comes down to the entangled and always-ambiguous politics of identity, especially his understanding of his Jewishness"--

Series Statement

Studies in Central European history, culture & literature

Uniform Title

Studies in Central European history, culture and literature.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225) and index

Contents

Preface by Günter Bischof -- Kreisky's Jewishness in historical context -- Kreisky and the Austrian "Victim's doctrine" -- Political scandals -- Kreisky and the 1973 Marchegg incident -- Kreisky, Zionism, Israel, and the Palestinian Arab world

Call Number

JFD 23-800

ISBN

9781608012428
1608012425
9781608012879 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022016233

OCLC

1305911328

Author

Aschheim, Daniel, 1988- author.

Title

Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish identity / Daniel Aschheim.

Publisher

New Orleans : University of New Orleans Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in Central European history, culture & literature

Studies in Central European history, culture and literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225) and index

Chronological Term

Since 1939

Added Author

Bischof, Günter, 1953- writer of preface.

Other Form:

Online version: Aschheim, Daniel, 1988- Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish identity New Orleans : University of New Orleans Press, [2022] 9781608012879 (DLC) 2022016234

Research Call Number

JFD 23-800

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