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What’s in a Minority?: Jews and Muslims in the Late Habsburg Empire and Revolutionary Russia

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This paper explores Jews and Muslims in the late Habsburg Empire as well as in imperial and postimperial Russia and their position on the intersection of confessional and ethnic minority. What did it mean to be Jewish or Muslim in the era of nationalism and self-determination? Neither was the self-perception among group members homogeneous and often varied according to political convictions, nor did governments always follow a consistent definition. Tackling Bukovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as the Muslim Commissariat in Bolshevik Russia, this paper brings together instances where contradicting options were chosen or competing interests were at stake when the question of how to institutionalise Jews and Muslims came to the fore.

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