Laboratory for World Destruction: Germans and Jews in Central Europe

Contents

Laboratory for World Destruction Germans and Jews in Central Europe Illustrations and Maps x Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Jews and Antisemitism in Central European Culture 1 PART 1: INTO THE CROSSFIRE 1. The Ethnic Cauldron of the Habsburg Empire 31 2. Adolf Fischof and the Tragedy of Liberalism 58 3. Austro-Marxist Interpretations of the “Jewish Question” 82 4. Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Socialism, and the Bund 99 5. The Strange Odyssey of Nathan Birnbaum 118 6. Max Nordau: From “Degeneration” to “Muscular Judaism” 154 7. Friedrich Nietzsche, Germany, and the Jewish “Superman” 175 PART 2: FROM HERZL TO HITLER 8. Theodor Herzl: Artist, Politician, and Social Utopian 205 9. In the Footsteps of “King Messiah” 239 10. The Last Testament of Dr. Sigmund Freud 258 11. Stefan Zweig and the “World of Yesterday” 282 12. Karl Kraus: An Anatomy of Self-Hatred 304 13. Karl Lueger and Catholic Judeophobia in Austria 325 14. Adolf Hitler: The Making of an Antisemite 352 Selected Bibliography 382 Index 390 ...