Attempting to cultivate an Austrian identity based on a civic rather than an ethnic conception of a national community, this text 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 analyses the ideas of his mentor, Adolf Fischof, 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.
| ISBN: | 9780880335294 |
| Publication date: | 19th December 2003 |
| Author: | Ian Reifowitz |
| Publisher: | East European Monographs |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 220 pages |
| Series: | East European Monographs |
| Genres: |
Science: general issues |
Attempting to cultivate an Austrian identity based on a civic rather than an ethnic conception of a national community, this text 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 analyses the ideas of his mentor, Adolf Fischof, another Austrian-Jewish reform-minded politician.
Imagining an Austrian Nation features in the following genres: Science: general issues
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