The volume assembles the papers presented at an interdisciplinary symposium organized by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in March 2000. Various conceptions of Austrian identity emerging in the course of Austria's multi-faceted political and cultural history from the 19th century to the present are analyzed for their ideological intentions. In the process, the fissures, contradictions, and myths marking Austrian history and civilization stand revealed. In counterpoint, a number of articles describe the heterogeneous and multifarious models and constructions of Jewish identity elaborated in response to the rival pulls of emancipation and assimilation, Zionism and anti-Semitism, modernity and exile.

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Inhalt: Hanni Mittelmann/Armin A. Wallas, Österreich-Konzeptionen und jüdisches Selbstverständnis. Identitäts-Transfigurationen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. - Gerald Stourzh, The Age of Emancipation and Assimilation. Liberalism and its Heritage. - Emil Brix, Assimilation in the Late Habsburg Monarchy. - Steven Beller, Is There a Jewish Aspect to Modern Austrian Identity? - Jacques Le Rider, Moïse égyptien. - Jakob Hessing, Edges of Eternity: Richard Beer-Hofmann and Sigmund Freud. - Milly Heyd, Egon Schiele and Arnold Schönberg: Light within the Dissonance. - Ruth HaCohen, Reflections and Inflections of the Transfiguring Self: On the Music of the >UnheimlicheReichinnerer EmigrationTheaterland Österreich.< Die Rolle des Theaters zur Konstituierung von Identität in der Nachkriegszeit. - Robert S. Wistrich, The Haider Phenomenon. - Elazar Benyoëtz, Die Zukunft sitzt uns im Nacken.