Empire, Nationalism and the Jewish Question: Victor Adler and Otto Bauer

Abstract

This paper uses the life and thought of two important figures in the history of Austrian socialism—Victor Adler and Otto Bauer—as a prism through which to examine the complex relationship between German nationalism, the Jewish Question and pro-Habsburgism among the early leadership of the Austrian Social Democratic Party.

Keywords

• Victor Adler
• Otto Bauer
• Austria
• Vienna
• empire
• socialism
• Jews
• Jewish Question
• nationalism