Imagining an Austrian Nation – Joseph Samuel Bloch and the Search for a Supraethnic Austrian Identity, 1846 – 1918
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- ISBN 9780880335294
- Weight: 418g
- Dimensions: 148 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 2003
- Publisher: East European Monographs
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book examines attempts to cultivate an Austrian identity based on a civic rather than an ethnic conception of a national community. It focuses on the ideas of Joseph Samuel Bloch, an Austrian-Jewish writer and politician who sought to cultivate a civic identity to unify the nationalities of multiethnic Austria. Bloch called for a hyphenated Austrian consciousness that respected the desire to protect pre-existing ethnic, cultural, religious, and linguistic bonds while building transethnic ties based on citizenship. This study also analyzes the ideas of his mentor, Adolf Fischhof, another Austrian-Jewish reform-minded politician. Finally, it compares Bloch's ideas to those of other Austrian reformers of various ethnic and political backgrounds in order to discover how they conceived of a supraethnic Austrian consciousness. "Imagining an Austrian Nation" explores the meaning of nationalism and identity in a pluralistic society, issues that confound humanity as much in the twenty-first century as they did in the nineteenth.
Ian Reifowitz is an assistant professor of history at the State University of New York, Empire State College.
