A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789-1939 (Oxford History of Modern Europe)
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In 1744, at the height of the War of the Austrian Succession, Empress Maria Therese came to believe that the Jews of Prague were plotting against her, in league with Austria's Prussian enemies. She decided accordingly to expel every member of the city's long-established Jewish community--"a brutal sanction," Anglo-Israeli historian David Vital notes, that "would have put an entire population on to the roads of Europe to march through lands in which they were highly unlikely to be allowed to settle in search of one in which they might." Maria Therese relented eventually, but the Jews of her e
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Release date: 9 September 1999
ISBN-10 : 0198219806 | ISBN-13: 9780198219804
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Release date: 9 September 1999
ISBN-10 : 0198219806 | ISBN-13: 9780198219804
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