Re: Fwd: [Cz-L] A Question!

 I asked my father about my grandfather's experience as a soldier in the
Austrian *9th Dragoon* Regiment .
According to him his father never mentioned anti semetic experiences in
the Austrian army in WWI
He thought this might have been because of the large amount of Jews in that
regiment.
Oded

2014-06-19 20:58 GMT+03:00 Eric Blaustein <@gmail.com>:

> Oded, your grandfather never mentioned anything about anti-semitismn
> during his military service(1915-19180). However, he served in the 9th
> Dragoner Regiment, where nearly everybody, especially the officers were
> Jewish. Dad
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Hanna Smith <@qx.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi! Oded,
>>
>> Papa did not talk much, least about himself or his family. Only once, an=
d
>> this is a
>> vague memory, did he talk about visiting the uncle who was an officer in
>> the
>> Austrian army. Papa was a young recruit then and apparently not properly
>> kitted out
>> for a social occasion. This caused consternation, and he was loaned a
>> more
>> appropriate uniform, and family disgrace was averted.
>>
>>
>>
>> As to the letter below, I think that both parties were right.
>> Anti-Semitism was so
>> pervasive within European culture that it would have been a miracle had
>> it been
>> absent in the Austrian or any other army. How much of its expression
>> would be
>> tolerated within a closely-knit system as the army was a matter of
>> politics and
>> policies that held the system together.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hanna
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------- Original Message -------
>>
>> From : Oded Blaustein[mailto:eggibl1_at_gmail.com]
>>
>> Sent : 6/18/2014 1:17:07 AM
>>
>> To : @gmail.com
>>
>> Cc : @qx.net
>>
>> Subject : RE: Fwd: [Cz-L] A Question!
>>
>>
>>
>> Dad
>>
>> Do you have any recollections of your father's WWI military stories?
>>
>> Was he appreciated in the Austrian army or persecuted as a Jew?
>>
>> See the letter below.ODED
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: cornel fleming
>> <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
>>
>> Date: 2014-06-18 14:34 GMT+03:00Subject: [Cz-L] A Question!To:
>> CZERNOWITZ-L =E2=80=AB
>> =E2=80=8E<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>=E2=80=8E=E2=80=AC
>>
>> 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 dynasti=
c
>>
>> 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 membe=
rs
>>
>> of my family fought for Franz Joseph and none of them reported this. Sin=
ce
>>
>> 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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