Fronten ohne Front: Zur späten Analyse des Novembers 1918 durch Franz Theodor Csokor - in Dritter November 1918

‘Nicht jüdeln’: Jews and Habsburg Loyalty in Franz Theodor Csokor’s Dritter November 1918

“…Indeed, as Spiel's eulogy shows, when he is remembered, if he is remembered at all, it is less for his actual writings, and more for his reputation as a good person and a humanist ( [20], p. 90). The fact remains, however, that despite his noble intentions, Csokor deployed negative stereotypes of Jews in Dritter November to make his point about the ideal shape of Austrian patriotism.…”

“…Csokor spent the war years in self-imposed exile in Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Italy before returning to Vienna in 1946. His close friends included the Jewish writer Egon Friedell, who committed suicide in 1938, Carl Zuckmayer, who fled the Nazis in 1938, and the anti-fascist writers Ferdinand Bruckner and Ödon von Horváth [20].…”

“…Indeed, in the decades before the collapse of Austria-Hungary, only two other groups, army officers and bureaucrats, came close to Jews in considering "Austrianness" so central to their self-understandings ( [6], pp. [19][20]44).…”