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PaRDeS Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V. / Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany, 2023

This paper examines the relationship between the Sephardic Jewish community of Vienna and the Ott... more This paper examines the relationship between the Sephardic Jewish community of Vienna and the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires in the latter half of the 19th century. The community’s legal status was transformed following the emancipation of Aus- trian Jews, but very few first-hand accounts of these changes exist today. The primary sources analyzed in this paper are Judezmo-language newspapers published in Vienna at that time. The paper emphasizes the historical and political contexts surrounding these sources, particularly the community’s close ties to the Ottoman and Habsburg regimes.

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The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book

This article explores the rise and development of ‘Sephardism’ among Sephardic Jews in Vienna. Se... more This article explores the rise and development of ‘Sephardism’ among Sephardic Jews in Vienna. Sephardism was originally a cultural phenomenon among the Ashkenazic Jews of Germany and Austria in the early nineteenth century. Based on the ‘Myth of Sephardic Supremacy’, they used it as a paradoxical emancipatory attempt to simultaneously stand out and integrate within the non-Jewish majority culture. Sephardic intellectuals in Vienna, living in a predominantly liberal Ashkenazic milieu, turned out to be highly receptive to some of the variants that German-Jewish Sephardism had to offer. Thus, during the second half of the nineteenth century, the Viennese Sephardim developed their own ‘Sephardic Sephardism’ with the aim of celebrating their own Sephardic (i.e. ‘Spanish’) heritage within a predominantly Ashkenazic environment. In the process, Sephardic Sephardism redefined the Viennese Sephardim’s self-image as Sephardic Jews, especially within the Eastern Sephardic Diaspora, where most...

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Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit einer Studie uber die Konstituierung und Konsolidierung s... more Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit einer Studie uber die Konstituierung und Konsolidierung sephardischer Identitat in Bezug auf Diaspora. Obwohl vorrangig sephardische Gruppenidentitat im Zentrum des Interesses dieser Studie steht, werden auch einzelne Aspekte sephardischer Individualidentitat berucksichtigt, da – so die These – beide in enger Verbindung zueinander stehen. Aus diesem Grund werden im Laufe der Analyse nicht nur historische und sprachwissenschaftliche Daten ausgewertet und interpretiert, sondern auch Daten, die im Rahmen zweier qualitativer enthnographischer Interviews im April 2011 und April 2012 in Israel erhoben wurden. Zusatzlich kommt auch genealogisches Material zum Tragen, dass wahrend eines weiteren Forschungsaufenthaltes im Fruhjahr 2012 in England beschafft wurde. Sephardische Diasporaidentitat wird zum einen auf Grundlage des gesammelten Materials und zum anderen durch die Auswertung anderer Primar- und Sekundarquellen einer genauen Analyse unterzogen....

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Sephardim and Ashkenazim - Jewish-Jewish Encounters in History and Literature, 2020

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Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe, 2021

The article examines the cultural and social impact of El Koreo de Viena (1869–1883), Vienna’s mo... more The article examines the cultural and social impact of El Koreo de Viena (1869–1883), Vienna’s most important Judezmo newspaper. Its journalistic content reveals how Sephardic Jews of Southeastern European origin thrived within a predominately Western European and, thus, Ashkenazi-based environment. It also shows how the periodical was perceived among its readers and, most notably, by other Sephardic journalists in the Balkans. Certain articles of El Koreo also point to the intermediary role that its editors took on when mediating between more traditional Southeastern European Sephardim and their Westernized brethren in Vienna.

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Sephardim and Ashkenazim, 2020

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Religion in Austria, 2014

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Thesis Chapters by Martin Stechauner

University of Vienna / Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2019

This dissertation sheds light on the hitherto little-known history and communal life of the Sepha... more This dissertation sheds light on the hitherto little-known history and communal life of the Sephardic or “Turkish-Israelite Community of Vienna” in the second half of the 19th century. Its principle aim is to gain knowledge about the formation and constitution of Sephardic identity in Vienna at that time. This is achieved through a thorough analysis of representative primary sources. The main sources analyzed in this thesis are newspapers in Judezmo (also known as Ladino or Judeo-Spanish) that appeared in Vienna in the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s – the most significant being El Nasional and El Koreo de Viena.

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PaRDeS Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V. / Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany, 2023

This paper examines the relationship between the Sephardic Jewish community of Vienna and the Ott... more This paper examines the relationship between the Sephardic Jewish community of Vienna and the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires in the latter half of the 19th century. The community’s legal status was transformed following the emancipation of Aus- trian Jews, but very few first-hand accounts of these changes exist today. The primary sources analyzed in this paper are Judezmo-language newspapers published in Vienna at that time. The paper emphasizes the historical and political contexts surrounding these sources, particularly the community’s close ties to the Ottoman and Habsburg regimes.

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The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book

This article explores the rise and development of ‘Sephardism’ among Sephardic Jews in Vienna. Se... more This article explores the rise and development of ‘Sephardism’ among Sephardic Jews in Vienna. Sephardism was originally a cultural phenomenon among the Ashkenazic Jews of Germany and Austria in the early nineteenth century. Based on the ‘Myth of Sephardic Supremacy’, they used it as a paradoxical emancipatory attempt to simultaneously stand out and integrate within the non-Jewish majority culture. Sephardic intellectuals in Vienna, living in a predominantly liberal Ashkenazic milieu, turned out to be highly receptive to some of the variants that German-Jewish Sephardism had to offer. Thus, during the second half of the nineteenth century, the Viennese Sephardim developed their own ‘Sephardic Sephardism’ with the aim of celebrating their own Sephardic (i.e. ‘Spanish’) heritage within a predominantly Ashkenazic environment. In the process, Sephardic Sephardism redefined the Viennese Sephardim’s self-image as Sephardic Jews, especially within the Eastern Sephardic Diaspora, where most...

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Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit einer Studie uber die Konstituierung und Konsolidierung s... more Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit einer Studie uber die Konstituierung und Konsolidierung sephardischer Identitat in Bezug auf Diaspora. Obwohl vorrangig sephardische Gruppenidentitat im Zentrum des Interesses dieser Studie steht, werden auch einzelne Aspekte sephardischer Individualidentitat berucksichtigt, da – so die These – beide in enger Verbindung zueinander stehen. Aus diesem Grund werden im Laufe der Analyse nicht nur historische und sprachwissenschaftliche Daten ausgewertet und interpretiert, sondern auch Daten, die im Rahmen zweier qualitativer enthnographischer Interviews im April 2011 und April 2012 in Israel erhoben wurden. Zusatzlich kommt auch genealogisches Material zum Tragen, dass wahrend eines weiteren Forschungsaufenthaltes im Fruhjahr 2012 in England beschafft wurde. Sephardische Diasporaidentitat wird zum einen auf Grundlage des gesammelten Materials und zum anderen durch die Auswertung anderer Primar- und Sekundarquellen einer genauen Analyse unterzogen....

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Sephardim and Ashkenazim - Jewish-Jewish Encounters in History and Literature, 2020

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Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe, 2021

The article examines the cultural and social impact of El Koreo de Viena (1869–1883), Vienna’s mo... more The article examines the cultural and social impact of El Koreo de Viena (1869–1883), Vienna’s most important Judezmo newspaper. Its journalistic content reveals how Sephardic Jews of Southeastern European origin thrived within a predominately Western European and, thus, Ashkenazi-based environment. It also shows how the periodical was perceived among its readers and, most notably, by other Sephardic journalists in the Balkans. Certain articles of El Koreo also point to the intermediary role that its editors took on when mediating between more traditional Southeastern European Sephardim and their Westernized brethren in Vienna.

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Sephardim and Ashkenazim, 2020

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Religion in Austria, 2014

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University of Vienna / Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2019

This dissertation sheds light on the hitherto little-known history and communal life of the Sepha... more This dissertation sheds light on the hitherto little-known history and communal life of the Sephardic or “Turkish-Israelite Community of Vienna” in the second half of the 19th century. Its principle aim is to gain knowledge about the formation and constitution of Sephardic identity in Vienna at that time. This is achieved through a thorough analysis of representative primary sources. The main sources analyzed in this thesis are newspapers in Judezmo (also known as Ladino or Judeo-Spanish) that appeared in Vienna in the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s – the most significant being El Nasional and El Koreo de Viena.

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