Product DescriptionThis is a comparative study of the role of Jewish question in the politics of the German and Austrian socialist parties before 1914. The response of the leading Marxist labour movements to Jewish emancipation, the rise of political anti-Semitism, and the emergence of Zionism, are among thesubjects analyzed by the author.About the AuthorRobert S. Wistrich, the editor, is Professor of Modern European and Jewish History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he received an honours degree in general history and at University College, London, where he was awarded a doctorate in Jewish studies. Professor Wistrich edited The Wiener Library Bulletin, a London-based historical journal, for seven years. He is the author of numerous articles and books on general and modern Jewish history including Revolutionary Jews from Marx to Trotsky, The Left against Zion, Socialism and the Jews, Hitler's Apocalypse and The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph.