Original scientific paper
JUDAISM AS A PROBLEM IN XIX. CENTURY CENTRAL EUROPE AND CROATIA
Ivan PEDERIN
Abstract
The Hapsbourg Empire housed a large number of Jews, based in Galicia and Hungary. Following the Toleranzedikt of the Emperor Joseph II. the Jews started settling in Vienna and other countries of the Empire. The Hapsburg bureaucracy did by no means harass or belittle the Jews. The Empire housed a large Jewish population in Galicia and Hungary that moved to the west following the Toleranzedikt and was active in culture, economy, industry and banking. Many of them were assimilated, committed to Christian faith or were irreligious to the horror of the orthodox rabbi. Most of the ethnic groups of the Empire developed to modern nation, the Jews did no endeavours to follow them they accepted modern German language and culture. Cionism aroused the Jews when the century drew to the close and spread in XX. Century. It can be considered a movement of national rebirth and less a religious movement.
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12058
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Publication date:
16.6.2004.
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