S. von Vereby. Ueber die Juden und ihre Tausendjährigen Leiden [“Jews and Their Thousand-Year Suffering]

(AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE)

M. Auer

Vienna

1859

FIRST EDITION.

Freimann, p. 191

The author, a native of Pest, Hungary, argues for the Emancipation of the Jews in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Despite a modicum of liberalization brought about by the Revolution of 1848, the clergy fought to maintain the Roman Catholic character of the nation and in 1851 the Government repealed the Constitution. The 1850's saw the passing of several draconian laws aimed at preventing Jews from entering Austrian mainstream society. It was the defeat of Austria in the Italian war of 1859 that reversed this trend, promising new liberal legislation concerning Jewish affairs. Legislation passed on February 18th, 1860, gave the Jews of most Austrian provinces full right to own property. See JE, Vol. II, pp. 333-4.