TY - JOUR A1 - Berkovich, Ilya T1 - Jewish Mercenaries in Habsburg Service BT - Soldiers of the Freikorps Grün Loudon (1796–98) JF - PaRDeS N2 - 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 Grün 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 Grün Loudon enable us to make several observations about their motivation as well as their position vis-à-vis their non-Jewish comrades. Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-650239 SN - 978-3-86956-574-3 SN - 1614-6492 SN - 1862-7684 IS - 29 SP - 69 EP - 79 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Corbett, Tim A1 - Siegel, Björn A1 - Thulin, Mirjam A1 - Csáky, Moritz A1 - Hödl, Klaus A1 - Kasper-Marienberg, Verena A1 - Berkovich, Ilya A1 - Czakai, Johannes A1 - Maślak-Maciejewska, Alicja A1 - Stechauner, Martin A1 - Dodou, Lida-Maria A1 - Heimann-Jelinek, Felicitas A1 - Nasr, Omar T. A1 - Halbinger, Monika A1 - Jánošíková, Magdaléna A1 - Keßler, Katrin A1 - Kauders, Anthony D. A1 - Piskačová, Zora A1 - Arnold, Rafael D. A1 - Schulz, Michael K. A1 - Shapira, Elena A1 - Sidky, Sean A1 - Sun, Cheuk Him Ryan A1 - Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava A1 - Tusan, Michelle Elizabeth A1 - Weigand, Susanne ED - Siegel, Björn ED - Thulin, Mirjam ED - Corbett, Tim ED - Czendze, Oskar T1 - Intersections between Jewish Studies and Habsburg Studies T2 - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany T2 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V. N2 - 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. T3 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. - 29 KW - Habsburg Studies KW - Jewish Studies KW - Intersections KW - Central Europe KW - Habsburg Empire KW - Habsburgstudien KW - Jüdische Studien KW - Überschneidungen KW - Zentraleuropa KW - Habsburgisches Reich Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-622072 SN - 978-3-86956-574-3 SN - 1614-6492 SN - 1862-7684 IS - 29 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -