Liberalism, Anti-Semitism, and Democracy Essays in Honour of Peter Pulzer

This volume, by a distinguished group of historians and political scientists, makes an original contribution to the history of democracy in modern Europe. It examines the history of liberalism, anti-Semitism, and democracy. The strengths and weaknesses of political liberalism, its complex historical relationship with anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria, and the development of democratic political cultures in Europe since the Second World War are explored. The book also discusses the concept of citizenship and human rights and the transfer of constitutional arrangements and party programmes across different regimes. The volume addresses both specific historical problems and comparative issues and ranges, for example, from the cultural history of Jewish violinists to the significance of the 1998 Red-Green coalition in Germany. This volume of essays is in honour of Peter Pulzer (Gladstone Professor of Politics in Oxford 1984-1996)

Foreword by Fritz Stern: Subtle Silence and its Consequences, Part. Part 1: Peter Pulzer and his Work. 1: Peter Pulzer: From Danube to Isis. A Career in Two Cultures, 2: Henning Tewes: The Committed Observer of a Janus-faced Century. Peter Pulzer on Liberalism, Anti-Semitism and Democracy, 3: Andrei S. Markovits: Peter Pulzer's Writing on Political Anti-Semitism and the Jewish Question in Germany and Austria: An Assessment, Part. Part 2: Liberalism and Anti.Semitism in Austria and Germany, 4: Anton Pelinka: Anti-Semitism and Ethno-Nationalism as Determining Factors for the Beginnings of Austria's Political Culture at the `fin de siecle', 5: Jan Palmowski: Between Dependence and Influence: Jews and Liberalism in Frankfurt am Main, 1864-1933, 6: Jonathan Wright: Liberalism and Anti-Semitism in Germany: the Case of Gustav Stresemann, 7: Jan-Werner Muller: Compromised Republicans: The Vernunftrepublikaner and the Transformation of Liberal Thought from Weimar to the Federal Republic, Part. Part 3: Citizenship and Human Rights. 8: Sudhir Hazareesingh: Jacobinism Redefined: Second Empire Municipalism and the Emergence of Republican Citizenship, 9: David Southern: The Hitory of Human Rights in Germany, Part. Part 4: Continuity and Change since the Second World War. 10: Wolgang C. Muller: Party Building and Consociational Democracy in Post-War Austria, 11: David Hine: Liberalism as a Sub-Culture. The Case of Italy, 12: William E. Paterson: Between Mutual Support and Misunderstanding: the British Labour Party and the SPD, 13: Max Kaase: A New Government - A New Democracy? The Red-Green Coalition in Germany, Part. Part 5: A Celebration of Genius. 14: David Schoenbaum: Fiddlers on the Roof: Some Thoughts on a Special Relationship