Jews and Intermarriage in Nazi Austria

Informationen zum Autor Evan Burr Bukey is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of Hitler's Hometown: Linz, Austria, 1908–1945 (1986) and Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938–1945 (2000), as well as multiple articles and reviews. Professor Bukey was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge in 1993–4 and received the National Jewish Book Award in 2000. Klappentext This study explores the experience of intermarried couples marriages with Jewish and non-Jewish partners and their children in Vienna after Germany's seizure of Austria in 1938. Zusammenfassung This study explores the experience of intermarried couples - marriages with Jewish and non-Jewish partners - and their children in Vienna after Germany's seizure of Austria in 1938. Evan Burr Bukey finds that although intermarried couples lived in a state of fear and anxiety! many managed to mitigate! delay! or even escape Nazi sanctions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Prologue: Jews and intermarriage in Austria; 2. Contesting racial status: successes and failures; 3. Intermarried divorce, 1938-45; 4. Tightening the noose: arrests, deportations, and forced labor, 1941-5; 5. Epilogue and conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Evan Burr Bukey, Evan Burr (University of Arkansas) Bukey, Bukey Evan Burr
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2010
• EAN: 9781107002852
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00285-2
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; austria, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1940 to c 1949, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Sociology: family and relationships, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater