Re: [Cz-L] A Question!

My father was recruited in sommer 1915 at age 18 in Vienna, where part
of the family was refugiated from occupied Czenowitz. He served with
the "Kaiserjäger" regiment on both the Italian and Russian front
during 27 months. He had a light belly wound from a grenade splinter
and finished military service only when the war ended on the alpine
front as Fähnrich.
He told a lot of stories about both campaigns and specific fights
against both "enemies".

There were probably only a few jews in the Kaiserjäger and this might
be the reason he did not mention antisemitism. Also I doubt that at
this early time in his life he might have valued the Austrian attitude
against jews as being better than in other countries. Also a "normal
for the time" amount of antisemitic expressions by fellow comrades
might have gone unobserved. But for any reason he might have had,
among the different stories there was none of antisemitism. As a child
I concluded that
there was not any mentionable.....but induction from one case really
had no value!

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:34 PM, cornel fleming
<cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net> wrote:
> I have just been to a lecture by Prof. Derek Penslar (look him up on Google)
> and as a result bought his book"Jews and the Military". In the book he
> says "Jews in Austria-Hungary had a motive for fighting,a fierce dynastic
> loyalty due to its stalwart identification of the governing regime with the
> protection of Jewish rights". But. he also says that"Jews in the Dual
> Monarchy's military forces documented brutal,unremitting,and oppressive
> anti-Semitism...yet there were also displays of friendship,tolerance and
> respect". In the foot-notes his comment re anti-Semitism appears to be
> based on "The prominent Hungarian Rabbi Jekutiel Judah Greenwald who wrote
> a decidedly lachrymose narrative of his war service with an account of
> brutal and humiliating anti-Semitism". Now my question...many members
> of my family fought for Franz Joseph and none of them reported this. Since
> the Prof is based here in England I would like to challenge this bit of his
> book....so any family stories from the list might be of value!! Best to
> all, Cornel
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