ABSTRACT

This chapter deals with an incident in which Vienna's alternative newspaper with the cryptic title "Wiener" reported on an alleged scandal in the main office of Austria's Jewish community by using barely concealed anti-Semitic tropes and overt anti-Semitic language. Thomas Albrich offers a solid account of the vocal and manifest anti-Semitism that the Austrian population brought to bear against Jewish Displaced Persons following the conclusion of the Second Word War. By Evelyn Adunka, is a solid account of a bevy of anti-Semitic incidents that have occurred throughout the Austria's Second Republic and have attained substantial notoriety. Eduard Gugenberger and Roman Schweidlenka confirm convincingly the long known fact that important strains of the ecology movement have always harbored openly anti-Semitic interpretations of their enemies' alleged destruction of the environment. Georg Schmid proceeds to argue persuasively that words and language have meaning, and that anti-Semitic language and thought always preceded anti-Semitic action.