History of Habsburg Jews 1670-1918

<p>William McCagg has done a great service for scholarship--and for Habsburg scholarship in particular--through his book. Scholars are in his debt. --<i>History of European Ideas</i><br /><br /> . . . strongly recommended to those interested in either Jewish or Habsburg history. --<i>American Historical Review</i><br /><br /> . . . McCagg tells a fascinating story with expert knowledge with the sure eye and sound judgment of the experienced historian . . . --<i>Midstream</i><br /><br /> . . . exceptionally fine research and the time frame of the study which make it quite remarkable and original. --<i>German Politics & Society</i><br /><br />William McCagg brings out the extent to which Jews were divided not only as Jews but also as citizens of Austro-Hungary . . . McCagg writes perceptively of Kafka's predicament as a German-speaking Jew in Prague living through the Czech nationalist revival . . . --<i>New York Review of Books</i><br /><br />Drawing on a wide variety of European sources McCagg has produced the first history of this important but often forgotten community to be written since the nineteenth century.</p>