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 couples 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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2015
• EAN: 9781107545960
• ISBN: 978-1-107-54596-0
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; 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