TY - JOUR
AU - Friesel, Evyatar
AB - LBI47-All:LBI47-All 23/4/08 19:51 Page 115 Jewish Life in Austria 46 LBI47-All:LBI47-All 23/4/08 19:51 Page 116 LBI47-All:LBI47-All 23/4/08 19:51 Page 117 The Oesterreichisches Central-Organ, Vienna 1848: A Radical Jewish Periodical* BY EVYATAR FRIESEL The gradual development of the Jewish press in nineteenth-century Western and Central Europe was one of the expressions of the growing adaptation of Jewish soci- ety to the general environment and its cultural ways. One significant example of Jewish journalism was the Oesterreichisches Central-Organ, published in Vienna during the months of the 1848 revolution. The Central-Organ stood at the crossroads of sev- eral themes in modern Jewish history: the growth of the Jewish press, the 1848 rev- olution in Austria, Jewish emancipation, and the migratory movement from Europe to America. This essay aims to describe positions and to analyse ideas published in the periodical regarding those themes. Attention will be paid to the group of main collaborators of the Central-Organ and to the “Auf nach Amerika! ” (On to America!) movement proclaimed on the pages of the journal. Seen from a Jewish (and admittedly particular) point of view, the main issue of the 1848 revolutions was the legal and political emancipation of Central-European Jewry. The results were 
TI - The Oesterreichisches Central-organ, Vienna 1848: A Radical Jewish Periodical
JF - Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
DO - 10.1093/leobaeck/47.1.117
DA - 2002-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-oesterreichisches-central-organ-vienna-1848-a-radical-jewish-szOaW3kDSJ
SP - 117
EP - 149
VL - 47
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -