Stolen Passports - An Identity Quagmire (Paperback)

Stolen Passports presents a vivid, complex panorama of the culture of the Jews of Austria in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. The narrative weaves through areas of anti-Semitism, the differences between "classical" Germanic Judaism and the rising tide of Chassidism, the culture of Eastern European gypsies, and the social arena of the wealthier Viennese Jews.