By Arnold D. Richards
Notwithstanding Freud is without doubt one of the towering highbrow figures of the 20 th century, too little cognizance has been paid to the impression of his Jewish identification upon his lifestyles and paintings, rather the impression of starting to be up a Jew in turn-of-the-century Vienna. The sixteen essays during this quantity discover the actual imbeddedness of Freud and his fans within the cultural matrix of Jewish relevant and japanese Europe. themes lined contain basic, sociological, old, and cultural concerns after which flip to the non-public: Freud's schooling, his Jewish identification, and his ideas approximately Judaism. notwithstanding an earthly and ambivalent Jew, Freud's emphasis on intellectualism and morality display the deep and abiding effect of ecu Jewish culture upon his paintings
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Vienna: Europaverlag, 1986. Mayer, Sigmund. Ein jüdischer Kaufmann 1831 bis 1911: Lebenserinnerungen. Leipzig: Drucker und Humblot, 1911. _____ Die Wiener Juden 1700 –1900: Kommerz, Kultur, Politik. Vienna: R. Löwit, 1917. Rechter, David. ” Austrian History Yearbook 28 (1997): 113 –130. Rozenblit, Marsha L. The Jews of Vienna, 1867–1918: Assimilation and Identity. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983. _____ Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I.
For a fuller discussion of this tripartite identity see Marsha L. Rozenblit, Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). On Galician Jews calling the emperor Froyim Yossel, see Joachim Schoenfeld, Jewish Life in Galicia under the Austro-Hungarian Empire and in the Reborn Poland, 1898 –1939 (Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1985), xx. 38. Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday (New York: Viking, 1943), v. 39. George Clare, Last Waltz in Vienna: The Rise and Destruction of a Family, 1842 –1942 (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980), 15, 17, 31.
The second wave of Jewish immigrants, coming in the 1860s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, came from what was then the Kingdom of Hungary, mostly from areas of western Slovakia and western Hungary which were very close to Vienna, not from the Hasidic heartlands of eastern Hungary. Many of them came from Pressburg/Pozsony (today Bratislava), the center of non–Hasidic Hungarian Orthodoxy, or from the Burgenland, an area south of Vienna today in Austria, where Orthodoxy dominated. Finally, only at the very end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, a large wave of Jewish immigrants from Galicia, that southern Polish territory that Austria annexed when Poland disintegrated in the late eighteenth century, came to Vienna.