... Zionism Austria Hungary Taafe Eduard latifundia system Poles of Galicia in Reichsrat elections of 1907 Ukrainians of Galicia Jewish alliance with Gegenwartsarbeit Jewish National Party coalition in Reichsrat elections of 1907 Stand Adolph Straucher Beno Iarosevytch Roman Moysa Rosochacki Stefan...

..., and cultural diversity. These characteristics require some explanation. Northeastern Hungary was physically far from the centers of power in Austria-Hungary. The Schwartzes’ hometown of Mátészalka lay more than 170 miles from Budapest and 320 from Vienna. Geography stretched out distances, particularly...

... overshadowed by more deadly examples of anti-Jewish violence before and after World War I, the 1898 riots constituted the most extensive anti-Jewish attacks in the Habsburg state in the post-1867 constitutional era. The 1898 Galician violence challenged the image of Austria-Hungary as a Rechtsstaat, a state...