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Wegen jüdischer Religion--Findelhaus : Zwangstaufen in Wien 1816-1868

Title: Wegen jüdischer Religion--Findelhaus : Zwangstaufen in Wien 1816-1868 / Anna L. Staudacher.
Author: Staudacher, Anna, 1946-
Publication: Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, ©2001.

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Description

2 volumes : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

Discusses and analyzes forced conversion in Vienna between 1818-68. Argues that during this period more than 2,500 Jewish children born in the Viennese hospital Wiener Gebärhaus, a maternity clinic, were separated from their mothers and converted to Christianity. Until 1843 the names of the children were changed; some were transferred to the Findelhaus (foundling hospital) without a name. Ca. 80% of these children died due to illness. When a Jewish mother wanted to see her child, she had to first show her own certificate of baptism. States that most of the mothers of these converted children were lower class; often they were impecunious and unmarried girls who came to Vienna to work as servants. Christians viewed the conversion of Jewish children against the wishes of their parents, practiced for centuries, as justified, for the salvation of "innocent souls". Forced conversions became illegal in 1868. Pp. 29-445 in vol. 2 contain a concordance of the mothers' names with biograpical information, and pp. 447-586 present a list of the names of the children.

Subject

Wien. Kaiserlich-Königliche Findelanstalt > Zwangstaufe > Findelkind > Juden > Geschichte 1816-1868
Wien. Kaiserlich-Königliche Findelanstalt > Findelkind > Lebensbedingungen > Juden > Geschichte 1816-1868
Jewish children > Austria > Vienna > Registers
Evangelistic work > Austria > Vienna
Evangelistic work
Jewish children
Joden
Kinderen
Doopboeken
Weeshuizen
Evangelistic work > Austria > Vienna
Jewish children > Austria > Vienna > Registers
Zwangstaufe > Findelkind > Wien > Kaiserlich-Königliche Findelanstalt > Juden > Geschichte 1816-1868
Findelkind > Zwangstaufe > Wien > Kaiserlich-Königliche Findelanstalt > Juden > Geschichte 1816-1868
Findelkind > Lebensbedingungen > Wien > Kaiserlich-Königliche Findelanstalt > Juden > Geschichte 1816-1868
Lebensbedingungen > Findelkind > Wien > Kaiserlich-Königliche Findelanstalt > Juden > Geschichte 1816-1868
Unterschicht > Jüdin > Nichteheliche Mutter > Soziale Situation > Wien > Geschichte 1816-1968
Jüdin > Nichteheliche Mutter > Unterschicht > Soziale Situation > Wien > Geschichte 1816-1968
Nichteheliche Mutter > Jüdin > Unterschicht > Soziale Situation > Wien > Geschichte 1816-1968
Soziale Situation > Jüdin > Nichteheliche Mutter > Unterschicht > Wien > Geschichte 1816-1968
Austria > Vienna
Juden > Zwangstaufe > Findelkind > Wien > Kaiserlich-Königliche Findelanstalt > Geschichte 1816-1868
Juden > Findelkind > Lebensbedingungen > Wien > Kaiserlich-Königliche Findelanstalt > Geschichte 1816-1868
Wien > Unterschicht > Jüdin > Nichteheliche Mutter > Soziale Situation > Geschichte 1816-1968

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Registers (Lists)

Note

T. 2 is 16 x 21 cm.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

T. 1.

ISBN

3631351984
9783631351987

LCCN

2001465223

OCLC

ocm47767785
47767785
SCSB-1224583

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library