ABSTRACT
The Jewish involvement in Germanism's fight against the Slavs, in the German Liberal party, and in the propagation of German culture was indeed to have fatal consequences, inviting the hatred of all the nationalities in the Monarchy. The role of the Jews in capitalist modernization was welcomed by the state as a centripetal factor holding together the threads of common economic interest between the contending nationalities. Liberal Viennese Jewry's unconditional identification with German culture had moreover been reinforced by the enormous impact that Germany had exercised on modern Jewish scholarship and research. Viennese Jews were found among its contributors along with Bohemian, Moravian, Silesian, and Italian Jews. The continuity of this Hebraist tradition underlined once again Vienna's special role as a crossroads between West and East European Judaism. In Austria, Georg von Schoenerer's Pan-German movement, enthusiastically supported by Viennese university students, led the way in redefining German culture so as to explicitly exclude the Jews.
