Crime, Jews and News: Vienna 1890-1914 Contributor(s): Vyleta, Daniel Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0857455931 ISBN-13: 9780857455932 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary - True Crime |
Dewey: 364.1 |
Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 266 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Cultural Region - Central Europe |
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Publisher Description: Crimes committed by Jews, especially ritual murders, have long been favorite targets in the antisemitic press. This book investigates popular and scientific conceptualizations of criminals current in Austria and Germany at the turn of the last century and compares these to those in the contemporary antisemitic discourse. It challenges received historiographic assumptions about the centrality of criminal bodies and psyches in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century criminology and argues that contemporary antisemitic narratives constructed Jewish criminality not as a biologico-racial defect, but rather as a coolly manipulative force that aimed at the deliberate destruction of the basis of society itself. Through the lens of criminality this book provides new insight into the spread and nature of antisemitism in Austria-Hungary around 1900. The book also provides a re-evaluation of the phenomenon of modern Ritual Murder Trials by placing them into the context of wider narratives of Jewish crime. |
Contributor Bio(s): Vyleta, Daniel Mark: - Daniel Mark Vyleta was educated in Germany, the USA and England. He holds a PhD in History from King's College, University of Cambridge. Currently, he serves as Assistant Professor in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconisn-Milwaukee. |