Socialism and the Jews : the dilemmas of assimilation in Germany and Austria-Hungary / Robert S. Wistrich.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 405-427.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Germany. Early socialists and Jewish emancipation. Bruno Bauer, the Hegelian left and Jewish emancipation -- Marx, Engels and the Jews -- The messianic nationalism of Moses Hess -- Socialists and anti-Semites in the 1870s -- Jewry, modernity and radical politics. German Jews and the crisis of modernization -- The politics of a bourgeois community -- Jewish intellectuals in the labor movement -- German social democracy and anti-Semitism. The SPD and the Berlin Movement -- The populist revolt of the 1890s -- Anti-capitalism or anti-Semitism? The case of Franz Mehring -- Marxist definitions of the Jewish question : Engels, Bebel, and Kautsky -- The left and Jewish nationalism. The Ostjuden : a class or a national problem? -- Karl Kautsky and Marxist anti-Zionism -- Socialism and Jewish nationalism -- Austria-Hungary. Nationalism and assimilation in the Habsburg monarchy. Austrian Jewry in the multi-national state -- Schoenerer, Lueger and the genesis of Austrian anti-Semitism -- The dilemmas of assimilation -- Social democracy and Viennese anti-Semitism. The working classes and anti-Semitism -- Victor Adler and Engelbert Pernerstorfer : from pan-Germanism to Marxist policies --Socialist neutrality on the Jewish question -- Between philo- and anti-Semitism -- Christian Socialism and the labour movement. The Socialist Party Congress of 1897 -- Karl Lueger : the Marxist appraisal -- The Arbeiterzeitung and the Jewish question -- Franz Schuhmeier and the Volkstribune -- Austro-Marxism and the Jewish national problem. Nationalism and internationalism in the Austrian labour movement -- The Ostjuden in Galicia -- Socialist anti-Zionism in Vienna and Galicia -- Otto Bauer and Engelbert Pernerstorfer : assimilation and the nationalist response -- Concluding theses -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.