... Vienna

by Max Grunwald. 557 pgs.

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Contributors:

Max Grunwald

Publisher:

The Jewish publication society of America

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia

Publication Year:

1936

Table of contents

	TABLE OF CONTENTS


	Foreword	xvii
	Introduction	xix

	BOOK I.--THE FIRST GHETTO
	I. Political Conditions under the Babenberg Dukes	1
	The Earliest Evidence	1
	Leopold V, Frederick I, and Leopold VI	2
	Frederick II	5
	Ottakar II	14

	II. Political Conditions under the Hapsburgs	17
	Rudolph I	17
	Albert I	17
	Frederick I	19
	Albert II and Otto the Joyful	20
	Rudolph IV	24
	Albert III and Leopold III	26
	Albert IV and William	29
	Leopold IV	30
	Albert V and the Catastrophe of 1421	32
	III. Law and Economics	39

	The Legal Status of the Viennese Jews in the Middle Ages	39
	The Economic History of the Jews	42
	David Steuss	48
	IV. The Inner Life of the Community	51

	Isaac Or Zaru'a	52
	Meir ben Baruk Halevi	60
	V. The Ghetto	67
	The Topography of the Ghetto	67
	The Community	69

	The Officers of the Community	69
	Social Life	70
	Relations to the Christian Environment	71

	BOOK II.--THE SECOND COMMUNITY
I.	The Growth of the Second Jewish Community	75
	Beginnings	75
	The Court-Privileged Jews	77
	Communal Life	81
	The Thirty Years' War	83
	Ferdinand II	84
	Yomtob Lipmann Heller	86
II.	The Second Ghetto	88
	Ferdinand III	89
	Leopold I	92
	The Expulsion of 1670	92
III.	Spiritual and Moral Conditions	96
	Sabbatai Horwitz	97
	Gershon Ulif Ashkenazi	99
	Social Life	100
	Loyalty to the Faith	101
	Wagenseil	102
IV.	The Jews and Their Environment	105
	Trade and Commerce	105
	The Jew at Home	107
	Deep Shadows: Hirshel Meyer	108

	BOOK III.--THE THIRD COMMUNITY
I.	Samuel Oppenheimer	113
	The Turkish Siege of	115
	Oppenheimer as Monopolist	116
	Kollonitz	117
	The Anti-Jewish Riots of 1700	119
	The Bankruptcy	120
	Oppenheimer's Character	121

II.	Samson Wetheimer	125
	Rabbi and Banker, Shtadlan and Maecenas	126
III.	Diego d'Aguilar, and the Sephardic Community of Vienna	130
	Diego d'Aguilar	130
	The Sephardic Community of Vienna	133
IV.	Leading Jews and the Jewish Political Status	135
	The Circle of Oppenheimer and Wertheimer	135
	Court Jews as Leaders of Jewry	135
	The Reduced Status under Charles VI	136
V.	Maria Theresa	139
	Social Regulations	141
	Economic Restrictions	142
	Religious Restrictions	144
VI.	Joseph II	145
	Toleration	145
	Origin of the Plan for the Patent of Toleration	146
	Joseph and His Mother's Policy	148
	Joseph's Restrictions	150
VII.	The Patent of Toleration	152
	The New Educational Opportunities	152
	The Conditions of Toleration	153
	Effects of the Patent	154
	Opponents of the Patent	157
VIII.	The Jews and the Patent	160
	The Quarrel about Wessely	160
	Review of the Decade of Joseph II	164

	BOOK IV.--THE PERIOD BEFORE THE MARCH REVOLUTION
I.	The Era of Renewed Restrictions	167
	Leopold II	167
	The Reign of Francis	168
	The Representatives	171
	The Tolerated Jews	173

II.	The Viennese Jews as Soldiers	177
	Jews as Officers	177
	The Neglect of Jewish Veterans	179
	Jews as Patriots	180
III.	Jewish Taxes	182
	The Bollete	183
	The Privilege of Residence	184
	To Kasher One's Self	185
	The Jewish Bureau	187
IV.	The Congress of Vienna	190
	The Arnstein Family	191
	Fanny von Arnstein	193
	Eskeles	197
	Lämel and Auspitz	200
	How the Jews Were Cheated of Their Rights	201
V.	The Temple	205
	On the Way to a Representative Form of Worship	205
	Biedermann and Hofmann	206
	The Workings of the Communal Organization	208
	The Struggle for Emancipation	209
	The Building of the First Temple	214
	The Rules of the Synagogue	219
	Communal Economics	220
VI.	The Jews in the Economic Life of Vienna	222
VII.	Solomon and Anselm Rothschild	225
VIII.	Viennese Jews in Journalism	233
	Jewish Literary Figures--Sonnenfels	236
	Arnstein, Herzenskron, Jeitteles	238
	Saphir	240
IX.	East and West	242
	Spiritual Life	242
	Hebrew Periodicals	244
	The Haskalah in Vienna	248

	BOOK V.--THE REVOLUTIONARY YEAR 1848

I.	The Revolution and Adolf Fischhof	253
	Adolf Fischof	255
II.	The Revolution and the Jewish Question	265
	The Jewish Question before the Imperial Council	265
	The Jewish Taxes	267
III.	The Jews and the Press of 1848	278
	The Jews as Publicists in 1848; L. A. Frankl, Dr. Kuranda, Betty Paoli	280

	BOOK VI.--THE REACTION
I.	The Fate of the Revolution and Revolutionaries	285
	The "Official" Constitution of Francis Joseph	292
	The Revocation of Jewish Rights	298
	What Became of Fischhof?	302
II.	The Jews in Economic Life during the Period of Reaction	306
	Economic Conditions in Vienna	306
	Economic Conditions from 1848 to 1859	309
III.	Viennese Jews in Music, Art and on the Stage	312
	Adolf Sonnenthal	317
IV.	Jews in Journalism after 1848	320
V.	The Jew in Viennese Society	329
	The Empress Carolina Augusta	333
	Emperor Francis	334
	Viennese Charm	336
	Jewish Salons since the Austrian "Era of Good Feeling."	338
	Clubs and Cafés	341
VI.	Communal Leaders	344
	Mannheimer as an Organizer	344
	The Kompert Case, 1863	350
	Solomon Sulzer	353
	Joseph Wertheimer	335

VII.	Communal Leaders (continued)	360
	Adolf Jellinek	360
	Ignaz Kuranda	365
	Parties in the Community	372
	Lazar Horwitz	375
VIII.	Communal Institutions	379
	The Religious School	379
	The Communal Library	382
	The Beth Ha-Midrash	383
	Communal and Institutional Life	384
	The Temple in the Leopoldstadt District	389
	The Turkish Temple	391
IX.	The Beginnings of a Liberal Policy in the Government	393
	Economic Situation of Viennese Jewry, 1859-1867	393
	The Provisional Community Decree of 1852	395
	Jacques' Pamphlet	397
	The Patent of February (1861) and the Annulment of the Constitution (1865)	401
	The Final Community Patent	402
	Judaism and the Spirit of Vienna	404
	The Constitution	406

	BOOK VII.--THE MODERN PERIOD
I.	From the Attainment of Civil Rights to the Present Time	411
	The Liberal Era	411
II.	Anti-Semitism	422
III.	The Rohling Affair	430
IV.	Dr. Joseph Samuel Bloch	438
V.	Zionism	448
VI.	The World War and Its Consequences	458
VII.	Epilogue	467
	APPENDICES
	APPENDIX PAGE
	A	481
	B	481
	C	483
	D : The Exiles	484
	E	489
	F	491
	G : Herz Homberg	492
	H	494
	I : Leaders in Economic Life	495
	J	500
	K	501
	L	503
	M The Generation of the Währing Cemetery	504
	N : Jewish Journalists in 1848	507
	O	516
	P: Jews in Medicine, Science, Technology and Manual Art	518
	Q: Charitable Institutions in Vienna	523
	R	525
	S	528
	Bibliography	531
	Index	539

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