National Emancipation and the Attainment of Group Rights: Perspectives from Early 20th-Century East-Central Europe

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This panel offers insight into the ways in which minority and marginalized ethnic groups, such as Ashkenazi Jews, pursued emancipation and national autonomy in East-Central Europe in the late and post-Habsburg periods. Panel presentations concern the struggle of Jewish nationalists to mobilize their co-religionists toward the realization of group rights in immediate pre-World War I Austrian Galicia; the relations of the Galician Jewish political establishment with the West Ukrainian People's Republic of 1918-1919; and the ideological diversity of minority rights activism in the interwar-era European Nationalities Congress.

Sub Unit

• History: 1900-1945

Chair

• Oskar Mulej, U of Vienna (Austria)

Papers

• Between Class and Nation: The Political Lives of Orthodox Jews in Late Habsburg Galicia - Sydney Shiller, Princeton U

• Constrained Choices: The Galician Jewish Political Establishment’s Relations with the West Ukrainian Republic - Danylo Leshchyshyn, Northwestern U

• Liberation through Group Rights?: The National Minorities in Interwar Europe - Oskar Mulej, U of Vienna (Austria)

Discussant

• Jeremy R. King, Mt Holyoke College