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r of Creative Austrian
wry Related in Fraenkel-Edited Volume
Perez Smolenskin edited The He- I "Darstellung Einer Juedischen Ju-
brew periodical Hashahar, and gend" is by Ernst Waldinger. Gus-
here the first Jewish Students' As- tav Jelinek authored an article on
sociation Kadima came into being "Wiedergutmachung."
The major essay by Fraenkel is
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Fraenkel deals extensively on "The Chief Rabbi and the Vis-
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with the Zionistic creative ef- ionary." Famous authors deal with
forts among the many cultural fascinating subjects and noted per-
activities that stemmed from sonalities. Three noted literary fig-
Vienna. His account of the rise ures Stefan Zweig, Arthur Schnit-
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of Nazism and the support Hitler zler, Theodor Herzl — are delin-
received from the Austrians is eated by Harry Zohn. Richard
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raenkel's work is a collection
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ulation received him in a frenzy
Hasdism in Austria, the Sep-
historical
analysis
in
an
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his
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of jubilation. More than 90 per
hardi and Galician communities
por tant introduction. While the -es-
cent of the Austrians voted for
in Viennese institutions and mu-
say s are replete with facts, ac-
Anschluss with Nazi Germany.
seums, the Austrian sports move-
nts
of
great
achievements,
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The leaders of the Jewish com-
ment among Jews and other val-
, tor. cal developments and numer-
cunity had their chance to escape
uable Viennese and Austrian ac-
ro ous experiences, Fraenkel's intro-
to safety, but they chose to stay.
tivities are under review.
r° duc tion is primarily valuable for
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Soon afterwards the coffin of
its revealing contents. He corn-
The section devoted to memoirs
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Jacob Ehrlich was sent from Da- and personalities has article& on
me nces his history by offering
chau. He had been murdered by "Who Was Freud?" by Martin
the se facts:
a Nazi while engaged in the Freud, sketches of Richard Beer-
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`The history of the Jews in Au.
drudgery of carrying stones. Au. Hofmann and Salomon Sulzer, an
stria began with legends. A tale
strian Jews perished in Buchen- essay by Max Brod in German
s told that, about 80 years after
wald, Dachau, Mauthausen, Sach- about Prag and Wien.
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Joshua ben Nun had crossed the
senhausen, Auschwitz, Ravens-
"Destruction" is dealt with
i r iver Jordan, Jews settled in
brueck, Riga, Minsk, Lublin, in The
four essays, by Norman Bent-
V ienna, and another fable makes
Theresienstadt, Bergen,- Belsen,
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1 Jew the founder of Vienna; yet
Gross-Rosen and Lodz. At lease wich, Herbert Rosenkranz, Rob-
another story claims Jewish ar-
60,000 were murdered. But it is ert Schwarz and P. G. J. Pulzen, in
book
ivals in Vienna in the wake of
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cribe the magnitude of the Jew- viewed in these articles.
I o emphasize how deeply t h e
Fraenkel covered the subject
ish tragedy. The murderers re-
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J ews were rooted in Vienna and
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main unconcerned; and neo-Na- thoroughly in his excellently-edited
attached to the city.
zism is again active in Austria, volume.
"Documentary evidence of the
particularly, and this is the mon-
presence of Jews in Vienna men-
strous . evil . of . the • situation,
ions the year 1156 when they
among the country's youth . "
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were cited in the Privilegium of
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This
is the stage reached by the
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Frederick I Barbarossa, which
was granted to the dukes of the famous city in which there was so
much Jewish activity, where Jews
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produced immense gifts in music,
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The essays in the Fraenkel-
wl ich, in the middle ages, led to edited volume provide the record
rit ual murder charges, to enforced of these achievements. They indi-
ba ptism, to expulsions. There were cate (in the initial article by Walter
th e pogroms of 1420-21, murders Pillich) the extent of Jewish ar-
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d the banishment of the Jews; tists' labors in the 16th through
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Ferdinand II needed their mon- about Austrian Jewry's contribu-
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e3 and allowed Jews to live in tions to jurisprudence.
iennese
suburban
ghetto
in
1625.
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Names of very great men pass
T] ere were "Court Jews" and
in review in these and subse-
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th ere were extortions. Under Kai-
quent accounts of the creative
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SE ✓ Leopold I in 1670 there was
efforts of the Jews of Austria.
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other
expulsion
because
Jews
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There are several essays in this •
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pation. But Joseph's followers
were hostile and even the regu-
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na — 1814-15 — did not provide
relief. But "with the foundation
of an organized Jewish Commu-
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of the Statute of 1876, designed
to grant equal civil and political
rights to all Austrian citizens,
the Jews showed themselves
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eager to apply their creative ef-
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forts to every sphere of life."
They did appliy that, and in the
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the Viennese Theodor Herzl. The
H erzl story is related by Fraenkel
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of
the
Zionist
movement
alive
and
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- his material gathered in this vol-
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olt me by the special correspond-
nt of The Jewish News in London,
OS( f Fraenkel. His newest work,
Th e Jews of Austria," published
.,y Valentine, Mitchell, 18 Cursitor
St., London, BC4, contains basic
fact • about the community and its
Je w and outlines the creative ef-
fort of some of the • world's most
dist inguished figures who were
Vie nnese Jews.
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