@article{Berkovich2024,
  author    = {Berkovich, Ilya},
  title     = {Jewish Mercenaries in Habsburg Service},
  series = {PaRDeS},
  journal   = {PaRDeS},
  number    = {29},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-574-3},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-65023},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-650239},
  pages     = {69 -- 79},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {This article aims to demonstrate the exceptional potential of Habsburg military records for the study of Jewish history during Europe's Age of Revolution. We begin with the random discovery of six Jewish veterans of Freikorps Gr{\"u}n Loudon - a unit of mercenary freebooters - which fought for the Habsburgs during the first war against the French Republic (1792 - 97). A careful re-reading of the available archival evidence reveals that these men were the survivors of a much larger group numbering at least two dozen Jewish soldiers. While Jewish conscripts had been drafted into the Habsburg army since 1788, the fact that Jews could also serve - even volunteer - as professional soldiers in that period is completely new to us. When considered together, the personal circumstances and service experiences of the Jewish soldiers of Freikorps Gr{\"u}n Loudon enable us to make several observations about their motivation as well as their position vis-{\`a}-vis their non-Jewish comrades.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{CorbettSiegelThulinetal.2024,
  author    = {Corbett, Tim and Siegel, Bj{\"o}rn and Thulin, Mirjam and Cs{\´a}ky, Moritz and H{\"o}dl, Klaus and Kasper-Marienberg, Verena and Berkovich, Ilya and Czakai, Johannes and Maślak-Maciejewska, Alicja and Stechauner, Martin and Dodou, Lida-Maria and Heimann-Jelinek, Felicitas and Nasr, Omar T. and Halbinger, Monika and J{\´a}noš{\´i}kov{\´a}, Magdal{\´e}na and Keßler, Katrin and Kauders, Anthony D. and Piskačov{\´a}, Zora and Arnold, Rafael D. and Schulz, Michael K. and Shapira, Elena and Sidky, Sean and Sun, Cheuk Him Ryan and Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava and Tusan, Michelle Elizabeth and Weigand, Susanne},
  title     = {Intersections between Jewish Studies and Habsburg Studies},
  series = {PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany},
  number    = {29},
  editor    = {Siegel, Bj{\"o}rn and Thulin, Mirjam and Corbett, Tim and Czendze, Oskar},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-574-3},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-62207},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-622072},
  pages     = {202},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {In the aftermath of the Shoah and the ostensible triumph of nationalism, it became common in historiography to relegate Jews to the position of the "eternal other" in a series of binaries: Christian/Jewish, Gentile/Jewish, European/Jewish, non-Jewish/Jewish, and so forth. For the longest time, these binaries remained characteristic of Jewish historiography, including in the Central European context. Assuming instead, as the more recent approaches in Habsburg studies do, that pluriculturalism was the basis of common experience in formerly Habsburg Central Europe, and accepting that no single "majority culture" existed, but rather hegemonies were imposed in certain contexts, then the often used binaries are misleading and conceal the complex and sometimes even paradoxical conditions that shaped Jewish life in the region before the Shoah. The very complexity of Habsburg Central Europe both in synchronic and diachronic perspective precludes any singular historical narrative of "Habsburg Jewry," and it is not the intention of this volume to offer an overview of "Habsburg Jewish history." The selected articles in this volume illustrate instead how important it is to reevaluate categories, deconstruct historical narratives, and reconceptualize implemented approaches in specific geographic, temporal, and cultural contexts in order to gain a better understanding of the complex and pluricultural history of the Habsburg Empire and the region as a whole.},
  language  = {en}
}