In the aftermath of the Shoah and the ostensible triumph of nationalism, it became common in historiography to relegate Jews to the position of the \u201ceternal other\u201d in a series of binaries: Christian\/Jewish, Gentile\/Jewish, European\/Jewish, non-Jewish\/Jewish, and so forth. For the longest time, these binaries remained characteristic of Jewish historiography, including in the Central European context. Assuming instead, as the more recent approaches in Habsburg studies do, that pluriculturalism was the basis of common experience in formerly Habsburg Central Europe, and accepting that no single \u201cmajority culture\u201d existed, but rather hegemonies were imposed in certain contexts, then the often used binaries are misleading and conceal the complex and sometimes even paradoxical conditions that shaped Jewish life in the region before the Shoah.<\/p>\n
The very complexity of Habsburg Central Europe both in synchronic and diachronic perspective precludes any singular historical narrative of \u201cHabsburg Jewry,\u201d and it is not the intention of this volume to offer an overview of \u201cHabsburg Jewish history.\u201d The selected articles in this volume illustrate instead how important it is to reevaluate categories, deconstruct historical narratives, and reconceptualize implemented approaches in specific geographic, temporal, and cultural contexts in order to gain a better understanding of the complex and pluricultural history of the Habsburg Empire and the region as a whole.
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In the aftermath of the Shoah and the ostensible triumph of nationalism, it became common in historiography to relegate Jews to the position of the \u201ceternal other\u201d in a series of binaries: Christian\/Jewish, Gentile\/Jewish, European\/Jewish, non-Jewish\/Jewish, and so forth. For the longest time, these binaries remained characteristic of Jewish historiography, including in the Central European context. Assuming instead, as the more recent approaches in Habsburg studies do, that pluriculturalism was the basis of common experience in formerly Habsburg Central Europe, and accepting that no single \u201cmajority culture\u201d existed, but rather hegemonies were imposed in certain contexts, then the often used binaries are misleading and conceal the complex and sometimes even paradoxical conditions that shaped Jewish life in the region before the Shoah.<\/p>\n
The very complexity of Habsburg Central Europe both in synchronic and diachronic perspective precludes any singular historical narrative of \u201cHabsburg Jewry,\u201d and it is not the intention of this volume to offer an overview of \u201cHabsburg Jewish history.\u201d The selected articles in this volume illustrate instead how important it is to reevaluate categories, deconstruct historical narratives, and reconceptualize implemented approaches in specific geographic, temporal, and cultural contexts in order to gain a better understanding of the complex and pluricultural history of the Habsburg Empire and the region as a whole. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":83304,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[6226],"product_tag":[6864],"class_list":{"0":"post-83300","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-religion-theologie","7":"product_tag-habsburgstudien-juedische-studien-ueberschneidungen-zentraleuropa-habsburgisches-reich","8":"autor-alicja-maslak-maciejewska","9":"autor-anthony-d-kauders","10":"autor-bjoern-siegel","11":"autor-cheuck-him-ryan-sun","12":"autor-elana-shapira","13":"autor-felicitas-heimann-jelinek","14":"autor-hava-tirosh-samuelson","15":"autor-ilya-berkovich","16":"autor-johannes-czakai","17":"autor-katrin-kessler","18":"autor-klaus-hoedl","19":"autor-lida-maria-dodou","20":"autor-martin-stechauner","21":"autor-michal-szulc","22":"autor-michelle-tusan","23":"autor-mirjam-thulin","24":"autor-monika-halbinger","25":"autor-omar-nasr","26":"autor-oskar-czendze","27":"autor-rafael-arnold-1","28":"autor-sean-sidky","29":"autor-susanne-weigand","30":"autor-tim-corbett","31":"autor-verena-kasper-marienberg","32":"autor-zora-piskacova","33":"zeitschriften-pardes","35":"first","36":"instock","37":"shipping-taxable","38":"purchasable","39":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n