Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme
Aim of the Programme
Welcome to HABSBURG, a member of the H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online family of networks sponsored by the Michigan State University. HABSBURG is a daily Internet discussion forum dedicated to the history and culture of the Habsburg Monarchy, its successor states, and their peoples from 1500 to the present. The primary purpose for HABSBURG is to enable scholars in history and related disciplines to communicate current research and research interests, stimulate discussion of approaches, methods and tools of analysis and circulate information on new articles, books, jobs/grants and resources. All languages are welcome.
Founded in October 1991, HABSBURG was the first Internet discussion group dedicated to an historical theme. We are affiliated with the Center for Austrian Studies, the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History, the Czechoslovak Studies Association, and the Hungarian Studies Association. We welcome any new members and encourage participation in HABSBURG activities. If you have any question or wish to become more involved, please get in touch with the editorial team.
Recent Discussions
Call for Papers - Entremons Journal of World History
Dear colleagues,
From the editorial board of Entremons: UPF Journal of World History we invite you to send us an original text for its possible inclusion in the next issue of our journal. Entremons: UPF Journal of World History is an annual publication sponsored by the University Pompeu Fabra and accepts both academic articles and recently published books' reviews about World History.
ANN: THE BOHEMIAN REBELLION AND ISLAM 1618-1620 (Blog)
The Opera historica Blog is exploring the the ambivalent relations between the rebels, the Habsburgs and the world of Islam. New editions of documents and travel accounts have been published.
Read more:
The Bohemian Rebellion and Islam (The OH blog post, 11/28/2020)
Call for Applications: PhD and MA Scholarships in Comparative History (CEU, Vienna)
CEU Department of History | Apply for PhD and MA Scholarships!
WEBINAR: Von »wilden Czechen« zu »tapferen Rumänen«, vom »polnischen Kläffer« zum »blinden Zar« Das vielfältige Bild Ost- und Südosteuropas, dargestellt in der Münchner Satirezeitschrift »Simplicissimus« (1896 –1944)
Wenn sie die Zähne fletschte, war Vorsicht geboten und wenn sie schnappte, tat es weh. Die rote Bulldogge des Simplicissimus nahm keine Rücksicht – auf nichts und niemanden. Dabei war sie bei der Wahl ihrer Beute keineswegs lokal beschränkt:
Dank bissiger Kritik sowohl an deutschen, als auch an internationalen politischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen errang sie internationale Anerkennung.
CFP: Motions of Knowledge – Knowledge in Motion (April 2021)
GRACEH 2021 – CALL FOR PAPERS
Motions of Knowledge – Knowledge in Motion
Conceptualizing “Knowledge Circulation” for Historical Research
15th Annual Graduate Conference in European History (GRACEH), to be held at the University of Vienna, April 7–9 2021
CFP/ WORKS IN PROGRESS: SIXTH HISTORIANS OF EAST CENTRAL EUROPE WORKSHOP (April 2021)
CALL FOR PAPERS/WORKS IN PROGRESS
SIXTH HISTORIANS OF EAST CENTRAL EUROPE WORKSHOP
University of Illinois at Chicago via Zoom
APRIL 8-9, 2021
ANN: Online Conference: Anti-Jewish Quotas: Central Europe and Beyond (Nov 23-24, 2020)
ANTI-JEWISH QUOTAS: CENTRAL EUROPE AND BEYOND
ONLINE CONFERENCE
organized by the Nationalism Studies Program and Jewish Studies Program at Central European University (Budapest/Vienna) and the Tom Lantos Institute (Budapest)
3.00 to 6.00 PM (CET), November 23, 2020
and
3.00 to 6.15 PM (CET), November 24, 2020
Call for Papers (Articles): Suicide in East-Central Europe, 1848-1969
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Type:
Call for Publications
Date:
December 21, 2020
Pages
Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Alexander Vari
Vari on Hakkarainen, 'Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna' and Hödl, 'Entangled Entertainers: Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna'
Heidi Hakkarainen.
Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna.
Austrian and Habsburg Studies Series. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. Illustrations. viii + 279 pp.
$135.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78920-273-1. 
Klaus Hödl.
Entangled Entertainers: Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna.
Reviewer:
Balint Varga
Varga on Maxwell, 'Everyday Nationalism in Hungary: 1789-1867'
Alexander Maxwell. Everyday Nationalism in Hungary: 1789-1867. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. iv + 258 pp. $103.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-11-063411-2.
Reviewed by Balint Varga (Institute of History, Loránd Eötvös Research Network) Published on HABSBURG (October, 2020) Commissioned by Jonathan Singerton (Universität Innsbruck)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55687
Reviewer:
Charles Ingrao
Ingrao on Rákóczi II, 'Confessio Peccatoris, Memoirs'
Ferenc Rákóczi II.
Confessio Peccatoris, Memoirs.
Translated by Bernard Adams; with an afterword by Gábor Tüskés. Budapest: Corvina, 2019. 2 vols. 628 pp.
$69.99 (paper), ISBN 978-963-13-6564-1.
Reviewed by Charles Ingrao (Purdue University) Published on HABSBURG (June, 2020) Commissioned by Jonathan Singerton (Universität Innsbruck)
Reviewer:
Cathie Carmichael
Carmichael on Gerlach, 'The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing: The Transformation of the German-Czech Borderlands after World War II'
David W. Gerlach. The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing: The Transformation of the German-Czech Borderlands after World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 308 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-19619-3.
Reviewed by Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia) Published on HABSBURG (May, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Matei Costinescu
Costinescu on Livezeanu and Klimó, 'The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700'
Irina Livezeanu, Árpád von Klimó, eds. The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700. Routledge Histories Series. New York: Routledge, 2017. xvi + 522 pp. $245.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-58433-3.
Reviewed by Matei Costinescu (Independent Scholar) Published on HABSBURG (May, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Tim Kirk
Kirk on Haider, 'Wien 1918: Agonie der Kaiserstadt'
Edgard Haider. Wien 1918: Agonie der Kaiserstadt. Weimar, Germany: Boehlau Verlag, 2017. 418 pp. $37.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-205-20486-2.
Reviewed by Tim Kirk (Newcastle University) Published on HABSBURG (April, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53044
Reviewer:
Aleksandra Witczak Haugstad
Witczak Haugstad on Trojanowska and Niżyńska and Czapliński, 'Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918'
Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Niżyńska, Przemysław Czapliński. Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 856 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4426-5018-3.
Reviewed by Aleksandra Witczak Haugstad (Research Council of Norway) Published on HABSBURG (April, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Roland Clark
Clark on Goldstein and Goldstein, 'The Holocaust in Croatia'
Ivo Goldstein, Slavko Goldstein. The Holocaust in Croatia. Russian and East European Studies Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. 736 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4451-5.
Reviewed by Roland Clark (University of Liverpool) Published on HABSBURG (March, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Alexey Miller
Miller on Hastings, 'Nationalism in Modern Europe: Politics, Identity, and Belonging since the French Revolution'
Derek Hastings. Nationalism in Modern Europe: Politics, Identity, and Belonging since the French Revolution. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. vii + 345 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4742-1339-4; $88.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4742-1338-7.
Reviewed by Alexey Miller (European University at St. Petersburg) Published on HABSBURG (September, 2018) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Günter J. Bischof
Bischof on Kuzmany and Garstenauer, 'Aufnahmeland Österreich: Über den Umgang mit Massenflucht seit dem 18. Jahrhundert'
Börries Kuzmany, Rita Garstenauer, eds. Aufnahmeland Österreich: Über den Umgang mit Massenflucht seit dem 18. Jahrhundert. Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag, 2017. 262 pp. EUR 19.90 (paper), ISBN 978-3-85476-816-6.
Reviewed by Günter J. Bischof (University of New Orleans) Published on HABSBURG (August, 2018) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev