Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 9 Feb 1999 15:23:48 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)765_US-ASCII Progress and Emancipation in the Age of Metternich
Jews and Modernization in Austria and Germany, 1815-1848
A conference organized by the Centre for German-Jewish Studies in conjunction with the Austrian Cultural Institute to mark the 150th anniversary of Metternich's exile in Brighton
This conference will investigate socially progressive impulses within a system which was politically conservative, taking the position of the Jewish communities as an indicator of tentative moves towards modernization in German-speaking Europe. The frustration of proposals for Jewish civil rights at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 resulted in an unresolved tension between reactionary and modernizing agendas. The [...]59_9Feb199915:23:48+0000(GMTStandardTime)[log in to unmask] |