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  The Socialist Calumny Against the Jews - Mises Institute
If the Jews have incurred the Nazis' hatred through their own conduct, it is no doubt because what was great and noble in the German nation, all the immortal achievements of Germany's past, were either accomplished by the Jews or congenial to the Jewish mind.
The truth is that while the Jews are the objects of anti‑Semitism, their conduct and qualities did not play a decisive role in inciting and spreading its modern version.
Jews have, of course, contributed to the rise of modern civilization; but this civilization is neither completely nor predominantly their achievement.
www.mises.org /fullstory.asp?control=1484   (4714 words)

  
 Jews in Vienna - Parliamentary Debates - Western and Eastern Jews
The Eastern Jews were conspicuous in the streets, for they had forelocks and wore traditional garb as signs of their Orthodox faith.
In 1909 the advocate Max Diamant from Czernowitz submitted a complaint in federal court, requesting that the Jews from Bukovina be recognized as a tribe proper, with Yiddish as its native tongue.
The president of the federal court, eighty-one-year-old baptized Jew Josef Unger, a liberal, rejected the complaint, citing the usual reason: that the Jews were a religious community and not an ethnic people.
www.porges.net /JewsInVienna/3ParliamentaryEasternWeste.html   (1996 words)

  
 Nation without a state: The Balkan Jews
Jews were seen by Romanians as an alien element that could not be assimilated, and this prejudice was exploited by ethnic nationalist leaders.
Jews lived there since medieval times and were not treated badly: one of the tsars of the Second Bulgarian Empire in the 1300s married a Jewish woman.
Jews were not active among Bulgarian nationalists in the 1800s because of their relatively favorable situation under Ottoman rule: there was fear that their position would worsen in a state that was Bulgarian in ethnicity and Orthodox in faith.
www.lib.msu.edu /sowards/balkan/lect17.htm   (4128 words)

  
 The Causes of Hostility Towards Jews: A Historical Overview, concl.
The origin of this divide between "particularist" and "universalist" Jews is to be found in the 19th century, in the wake of the Enlightenment and the emergence of European Jews from their isolationist ghettos.
Jews have a long history of leftist political advocacy, agitation against any status quo of Christian empowerment, and profoundly disproportionate percentages of leadership roles in groups that ostensibly espouse pan-human, universalist themes.
Jews played quite prominent roles in the top and second echelon leadership of the communist regimes in all of these countries in the immediate postwar period.
www.cassiopaea.org /cass/hostility-jews_3.htm   (7114 words)

  
 Marching Toward War: Plight of the Jews and Dissidents
Another part offers evidence of the deprivation of citizenship rights, the prohibition of emigration, the closing to Jews of swimming pools, museums and theatres, the exclusion of Jewish children from milk distribution and the barring of Jewish sick from hospitals...The conditions of Jews in concentration camps also are described.
Germany's attack on Jews is portrayed as an attack on individual freedom and freedom of speech (the latter likely a value the March of Time staff held dear).
There are no Austrians in the story who are happy about Hitler's conquest, and the revealed results of his campaign are tragic at every turn.
xroads.virginia.edu /~MA04/wood/mot/html/jews.htm   (3813 words)

  
 German/Austrian Holocaust Related Databases on the Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
(Large numbers of Hungarian Jews originally scheduled to be deported to Auschwitz were also sent there) I have gone through the camp's records contained on 305 reels of film and extracted the names of German/Austrian Jews as well as noted their fate to the extent the records disclose that.
This list does not correspond to Klarsfeld's list of deportees, for reasons unknown to me. I computerized the names of 825 persons born in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland.
Again, for reasons unknown to me, this list is far shorter than the list of names in Klarsfeld or those that appear on the actual deportation lists which are available in Paris and at the Holocaust Museum in Washington.
www.jewishgen.org /GerSIG/holocaust-db.htm   (767 words)

  
 (TURKS SAVE JEWS) Tall Armenian Tale: The Other Side of the Falsified Genocide
Although many Jews fled in the 1930s, those who remained on Rhodes were harassed by the Italian administration but relatively safe until Mussolini was deposed in July 1943 and Italy's provisional government declared an armistice with the Allies.
This involved stopping the men whom they had suspected to be Jews right on the street, and making them drop their pants to see whether they were circumcised.
Unfortunately, many Jews are totally ignorant of the great deeds of one of their very, very few historic good friends.
www.tallarmeniantale.com /Turks-save-Jews.htm   (4581 words)

  
 Modern History Sourcebook: Mark Twain: Concerning The Jews, Harper's Magazine, March, 1898
The Jew is not a burden on the charities of the state nor of the city; these could cease from their functions without affecting him.
In the matter of numbers of the Jew counts for little in the overwhelming population of New York; but that his honesty counts for much is guaranteed by the fact that the immense wholesale business houses of Broadway, from the Battery to Union Square, is substantially in his hands.
The Jew came down in force, set up shop on the plantation, supplied all the negro's wants on credit, and at the end of the season was proprietor of the negro's share of the present crop and of part of his share of the next one.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1898twain-jews.html   (6142 words)

  
 Wickham Steed on the Jews of Austria
The Jews of Vienna would long since have ceased to be exposed to anti-semitic agitation were their ranks not swelled every year by thousands of new-comers from Galicia and Hungary who invade the field of exploitation conquered by their predecessors and make economic war upon Jew and non-Jew alike.
The sayings that the Jews are as yeast working in the lump of human society, or that they are as foreign matter in the blood-social, causing fever by their presence, go but a little way to explain the phenomenon.
That Jews nave a remarkable faculty for external adaptation to environment is incontestable, but it remains to be seen whether, with all their pliancy and pertinacious direction of will toward their immediate object, they are capable of adapting themselves internally.
www.h-net.org /~habsweb/sourcetexts/hwsjews.htm   (8962 words)

  
 The Movies and Ethnic Representation: Jews: Videotapes in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley
A Jew is murdered in a New York hotel, and three ex-soldiers are suspected.
But the actor discovers the horrifying truth and as he rehearses with a group of children in what is to be the last performance of their lives, he refuses to play a role in the Nazi's charade.
After his new painting, The Eternal Wanderer, is rejected by the academy and he is fired from his position the figure of his father, the model for the Wanderer, steps from the painting and relates the history of Jewish perseverance in the face of such horrors as the Spanish Inquisition and the Russian Pogroms.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/imagesjews.html   (12176 words)

  
 Europe as Israel History : Empire of Jews
In this list are not only their names, but also both the years of reign and the place of their burial: "Sennan, ruled 45 years, buried at the Stubentor, in Vienna; Zippan, ruled 43 years, buried in Tulln.".
The individual ascribes to the Jews genetic abnormalities which are peculiar to a proper physiological type, prevalent in a given habitat.
The extent of the deficiencies and vices ascribed to the Jews is limitless.
www.new-tradition.org /jews.html   (4291 words)

  
 Herta Herzog:The Jews as `Others': On Communicative Aspects of AntisemitismFull text: ACTA occasional papers, Research ...
The methodological approach concerning the question how Jews are seen in everyday communication reflects a fairly general shift of emphasis in the social sciences, sociology in particular, from the class/status orientation to one which stresses the everyday aspects-- the manner in which the members of society themselves experience reality.
The Jews have to open themselves for the next generation with which they want to live, and say: my way of life is this and your way of life is so and we have nothing against each other.
Jews are also not regarded as foreigners, but as "others," for they have been significant in Austrian life -- culturally, economically, and socially as friends and neighbors.
sicsa.huji.ac.il /4herta.htm   (10751 words)

  
 Cyndi's List - Austria / Österreich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Anything that concerns Austrian traditions, culture, folklore, heritage, or why not old recipes and daily life is an appropriate topic.
A bilingual English-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in Kuestenland, a former territory of Austria which saddles the borders of Italy, Slovenia and Croatia.
A bilingual English-German mailing list for descendants of the Danube-Swabian German ethnic group from the Danubian Plain in Hungary, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia.
www.cyndislist.com /austria.htm   (2535 words)

  
 A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust-Rescuers
Rescuers are those who, at great personal risk, actively helped members of persecuted groups, primarily Jews, during the Holocaust in defiance of Third Reich policy.
Ivan Beltrami was able to use his position as an intern to protect Jews in a hospital infirmary in France.
Dorothea Neff was a famous Austrian stage actress who hid her Jewish dress designer in the back room of her apartment.
fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/people/rescuer.htm   (1551 words)

  
 Get Unarchived Mailing Lists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The MTT list is a forum for researchers that work within the Meaning-Text Theory.
The purpose of this mailing list is to allow for a wider-ranging discussion on matters related with the study of talk shows, interviews, discussion programmes that is, any kind of programme which may serve as a public forum for discussion on different topics both on TV and radio.
The "jewish-languages" mailing list is a forum for academic discussion of Jewish languages, including Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Jewish English, Judeo-Arabic, etc. A Jewish language is broadly conceived as any system of speech or writing used by Jews that differs somewhat from the non-Jewish language(s) around it.
linguistlist.org /lists/get-unarchlists.html   (1081 words)

  
 List of Austrian Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chaim Sheba, Israeli physician (born in Austrian Bukovina, lived in Vienna)
Jean Améry, an ethnic Jew, noted for having written one of the central texts on the Nazi death camps
Ludo Moritz Hartmann, Austrian Jewish historian and statesman [16] " two lay Jews Ludo Moritz Hartmann"
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Austrian_Jews   (722 words)

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