Christian Social Anti-Semitism in Vienna: A Textual Analysis of "Die Reichspost," 1894-1897

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dc.contributor.advisorRozenblit, Marshaen_US
dc.contributor.authorCohen, Adam Joshuaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-02T05:32:09Z
dc.date.available2013-10-02T05:32:09Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractThis Master's Thesis is a close textual analysis of the anti-Semitic argumentation of the <italic>Reichspost</italic>, a Catholic and anti-Semitic newspaper associated with the Christian Social Party and published in Vienna between 1894 and 1938. This micro study examines the newspaper from January 1894 through April 1897. During its early years, the <italic>Reichspost</italic> used economic, social, and political anti-Semitism, religiously motivated Jew-hatred, and historical misrepresentations against Jews and Judaism. In addition, the newspaper justified (but did not call for) anti-Semitic violence. The <italic>Reichspost</italic> moderated itself by rejecting racial anti-Semitism and leaving the possibility of baptism and conversion open to Jews. Moreover, the newspaper demonstrated state patriotism, dynastic loyalty, and some aspects of "positive" Christianity. The <italic>Reichspost</italic> molded these seemingly discordant views into consistent ideology with demands for the "re-Christianization" and "de-Jewification" of public life, and doing so differentiated it from racial and radical anti-Semites of its time and of later decades.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/14460
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEuropean historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledantisemitismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledanti-Semitismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAustriaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledChristian Socialen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledReichsposten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledViennaen_US
dc.titleChristian Social Anti-Semitism in Vienna: A Textual Analysis of "Die Reichspost," 1894-1897en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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