Download or read book The Jews of Vienna and the First World War written by David Rechter and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rechter (Oxford U.) explores the crisis of ideology and identity undergone by the Viennese Jewish community during the traumatic war years and in making the transition from the Habsburg empire to the Austrian Republic. Though the Great War and its aftermath profoundly affected the Jews of Eastern Europe.