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Habsburg Sons describes Jewish participation in the Habsburg Army. 1788-1918, concentrating on World War I. Approximately 300,000-350,000 Jews fought in the Austro-Hungarian Armies. The book uses personal diaries and newspaper articles (most available in English for the first time) to describe their experiences.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Foreword: A History of a Bygone Era, by Manfried Rauchensteiner
Jewish Soldiers in Habsburg Austria, by Gerald Lamprecht
Introduction
Plates
Chapter 1. Setting the Stage
Chapter 2. Jews in the Armies of Austro-Hungary before the Great War: A Comparative Framework
Chapter 3. The Kaiser Needs You! Initial Reaction to the Declaration of War
Chapter 4. Snapshots from the Eastern Front: Diaries, Memoirs, Reports
Chapter 5. Snapshots from Other Fronts: The Balkans, Italy, and Palestine
Chapter 6. Austro-Hungarian
Feldrabbiner: Tallit, Torah, and Tobacco
Chapter 7.
Captives of the Tsar in European Russia, Siberia, and Central Asia
Chapter 8.
Epilogue. The Fate of Habsburg Jewish Veterans and Their Influence on Postwar Europe
Bibliography
About the author
Peter C. Appelbaum is Emeritus Professor of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University. His publications include Loyalty Betrayed (2014), Loyal Sons (2014), and, as translator/editor, Hell on Earth (2017), Carnage and Care on the Eastern Front (2018), Voyage into Savage Europe (2020), and Jewish Self Hate (2021). He is the recipient of the 2019 TLS-Risa Domb/Porjes Prize for Hebrew-English translation.
Summary
Describes Jewish participation in the Habsburg Army from 1788 to 1918, concentrating on their role in World War I. The book uses personal diaries and newspaper articles (most available in English for the first time) to describe their experiences. The comparative experiences of Jews in the German, Russian and Italian Armies is also summarized.
