Steven Beller

Biographic Data

ID3759916
NAMESteven Beller
GIVEN NAMESSteven
FAMILY NAMEBeller
SIGNATUREBELLER S
AFFILIATIONSWashington, DC
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT47
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Austria, 1867-1955

    Steven BellerARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2025

  • Freud and the Émigré: Austrian Émigrés, Exiles, and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1930S-1970S ed. by Elana Shapira and Daniela Finzi

    Steven BellerARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2021

    Reviewed by: Freud and the Émigré: Austrian Émigrés, Exiles, and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1930S-1970S ed. by Elana Shapira and Daniela Finzi Steven Beller Elana Shapira and Daniela Finzi, eds., Freud and the Émigré: Austrian Émigrés, Exiles, and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1930S-1970S. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 277 pp. Émigrés from Austria were one of the most influential groups in shaping modern British socie…

  • The Jews of Nazi Vienna, 1938–1945: Rescue and DestructionIlana Fritz Offenberger

    Open AccessSteven BellerARTICLEHolocaust and Genocide Studies2020

    Austrian history, notoriously, has suffered a memory void: from March 1938 until April 1945 it disappears. This is partly because of the official reason: the state of Austria had ceased to exist after the Anschluss, swallowed up by Hitler’s German Reich, and only returned to life in April 1945 as the Second Republic. There is also the fact that this period shows most Austrians behaving extremely badly, almost all obeying the Third Reich and a sig…

  • The Habsburg Monarchy 1815–1918

    Steven BellerBOOKHabsburg Monarchy 1815-19182018

    This clear and compelling account of the Habsburg Monarchy in its last century explains why, a century after its disappearance, it has never been more relevant. With extensive discussion of recent historiographic controversies about the Monarchy's character and viability, Steven Beller presents a detailed account of the main strands of the Monarchy's political history and how its economic, social and cultural development interacted with this main…

  • Forum: Intellectual and Artistic Responses to Early Fascism—the Historians' Perspective

    Open AccessSylvia Taschka, Steven Beller et al.ARTICLEThe German Quarterly2017

    Peer reviewed

  • The ‘Jewish question’ in Wonderland

    Steven BellerARTICLEPatterns of Prejudice2017

    Robert Fine and Philip Spencer preface their book with an image: E. M. Lilien's ExLibris. It shows a lissome young woman, her Jugendstil locks waving around like so many snakes, her head deep in a

  • The Habsburg Empire: A New History, by Pieter M. Judson

    Open AccessSteven BellerARTICLEThe English Historical Review2017

    For most of the twentieth century, modern Central European history was seen as a battleground between nationalism and empire, specifically in the Habsburg Empire (also known as the Habsburg Monarchy). Most historians saw the Habsburg Monarchy’s succession by nation-states after 1918 as a natural, modern development. In recent decades, however, historians have begun to emphasise uts staying power, its overall benefit to the region’s population, an…

  • Die Wiener Christlichsoziale Partei, 1910–1934: Eine Geschichte der Zerrissenheit in Zeiten des Umbruchs, by Markus Benesch

    Open AccessSteven BellerARTICLEThe English Historical Review2016

    Viennese political history in the early twentieth century is usually written from the perspective of the winners: the Christian Social Party of Karl Lueger from 1895 until 1919, and then the era of ‘Red Vienna’ under the Social Democrats until 1933/4, when the democratically elected government of Vienna was ousted by the Austrofascist regime of Engelbert Dollfuss’s Ständestaat. It is an interesting exercise to write the history of the times from …

  • Concatenations

    Steven BellerBOOKAntisemitism2015

    By 1914, the scene was set for antisemitism on a large scale throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Racial antisemitism and ethno-nationalism had prevented a full integration of Jews into society. ‘Concatenations’ looks at the effect of antisemitism in all its variant forms on the Jewish situation within European society. Central European Jews adjusted to the new situation of racism and ethno-nationalism by adopting the same approach to their own…

  • What is antisemitism?

    Steven BellerBOOKAntisemitism2015

    Is antisemitism a hatred of Jews that has stretched across millennia and across continents? Is it a relatively modern political movement that arose in Central Europe during the late 19th century? Or is it an irrational, psychologically pathological version of ethnocentric or religiocentric anti-Judaism that originated in old conflicts between Jews and Christians? ‘What is antisemitism?’ looks at the origins and meaning of antisemitism and conside…

  • The Chosen People

    Steven BellerBOOKAntisemitism2015

    In the century before antisemitism emerged as a powerful political movement in the early 1880s, European Jewry had been through a radical transformation. ‘The Chosen People’ looks at developments around that time to help explain the path antisemitism took. Modernization of the European economy, society, and political systems from the mid-17th century onwards added to radical changes in thought and attitudes towards Jews. They needed to be integra…

  • The perils of modernity

    Steven BellerBOOKAntisemitism2015

    In addition to the ‘irrationalist’ critique of ‘Jewish’ modernity that informed some antisemitism, there was another, ‘rational’ side to antisemitism. ‘The perils of modernity’ considers the irony that the biggest threat to Jews in Central and Eastern Europe was the modernization of society given the form that this modernization took. The influence of racial theory was also closely bound up with the much increased prestige of nationalism in early…

  • The culture of irrationalism

    Steven BellerBOOKAntisemitism2015

    Why has antisemitism been defined as ‘irrational’ hostility to Jews? This cultural approach was a reaction against the rationalist claim that all human experience and endeavour could be reduced to rational, calculable objects and relations. ‘The culture of irrationalism’ looks at the strong link between German cultural ‘irrationalism’, Romanticism, and antisemitism, and how influential people in the arts contributed to this. Even irrational think…

  • The burden of the past

    Steven BellerBOOKAntisemitism2015

    To understand the emergence and success of antisemitism in the late 19th and 20th centuries, the significance of the centuries-long heritage of hostility between Christians and Jews needs to be recognized. This conflict over beliefs led to the institutionalization within medieval European Christendom of the Jews as a protected minority. ‘The burden of the past’ considers the legacy of Jewish–Christian relations in creating the phenomenon of antis…

  • Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)

    Steven BellerBOOKAntisemitism2015

    Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia. Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious conflict to ‘new’ antisemitism in the 21st century. It reveals how antisemitism grew as a political and ideological movement in the 19th century, how it reached its dark apogee in the Holocaust, and how it still persists around the wor…

  • On the Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War, by Bernard Wasserstein

    Open AccessSteven BellerARTICLEThe English Historical Review2013

    Journal Article On the Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War, by Bernard Wasserstein Get access On the Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War, by Bernard Wasserstein (London: Profile Books, 2012; pp. xxi + 552. £25). Steven Beller Steven Beller Washington DC Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 535, December 2013, Pages 1621–1623, https…

  • Lisa Silverman. Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars

    Steven BellerARTICLEThe American Historical Review2013

    Jonathan Wolfe Miller, the famous British opera director, intellectual, and wit, was once part of the “Beyond the Fringe” comedy troupe. In one sketch, Miller is asked “Are you a Jew?” Miller responds, in panic, “Oh no!” Then, pausing, he says: “I am Jew-ish.” This idea of a marginal, quasi-Jewish identity is not quite what Lisa Silverman has in mind with her own distinction between “Jews” and “the Jewish,” or “Jewish difference,” but it is relat…

  • Jews and Other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity, and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860-1925

    Steven BellerARTICLEThe English Historical Review2010

    Journal Article Jews and Other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity, and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860–1925 Get access Jews and Other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity, and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860–1925, by Till van Rahden (tr. Marcus Brainard) (Madison: U. of Wisconsin P., 2008; pp. 477. $65; pb. $29.95). Steven Beller Steven Beller Washington, DC [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…

  • Is Europe Good for the Jews? Jews and the Pluralist Tradition in Historical Perspective

    Steven BellerARTICLEEuropean Judaism2009

    The growing trend in the Jewish community to raise the alarm about Europe and the ‘new antisemitism’ is alarmist and misplaced. The main threat to Jews in Europe lies in the reassertion of atavistic nationalist ideologies and the rise in the persecution of minorities, not in the growth of the transnational institutions of the European Union. The current European polity was born and continues to develop in the great European tradition of pluralism…

  • A Concise History of Austria

    Open AccessSteven BellerBOOKConcise History of Austria2007

    For a small, prosperous country in the middle of Europe, modern Austria has a very large and complex history, extending far beyond its current borders. Today's Austrians have a problematic relationship with that history, whether with the multi-national history of the Habsburg Monarchy, or with the time between 1938 and 1945 when Austrians were Germans in Hitler's Third Reich. Steven Beller's gripping and comprehensive account traces the remarkabl…

  • In Zion's hall of mirrors: A comment on Neuer Antisemitismus

    Steven BellerARTICLEPatterns of Prejudice2007Cited by: 2

    Beller's review article takes as its starting point the essays published in a recent collection exploring the question of a ‘new antisemitism’. He claims that this debate has generated more heat than light. Warnings about the rise of a new antisemitism in Europe, especially on the left, are greatly exaggerated, largely unjustified and approach a form of psychological ‘projection’. Anti-Zionism is not necessarily antisemitism. Zionism is an ethnon…

  • The Last Years of Austria-Hungary: A Multi-National Experiment in Early Twentieth-Century Europe

    Steven BellerARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006Cited by: 4

  • Rethinking Vienna 1900

    Andrew Lees, Steven Beller et al.ARTICLEGerman Studies Review2003

    Fin-de-siecle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of the century's modern culture. Our understanding of what happened in those key decades in Central Europe at the turn of the century has been shaped in the last years by an historiography presided over by Carl Schorske's Fin de Siecle Vienna and the model of the relationship between politics and culture which emerged from his work and that of his followers. Recent scholarship, however, ha…

  • Rethinking Vienna 1900

    Steven BellerBOOKRethinking Vienna 1900 (Austrian…2001

    Fin-de-siècle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of the century's modern culture. Our understanding of what happened in those key decades in Central Europe at the turn of the century has been shaped in the last years by an historiography presided over by Carl Schorske's Fin de Siècle Vienna and the model of the relationship between politics and culture which emerged from his work and that of his followers. Recent scholarship, however, ha…

  • Setting the Tone: A Review of German-Jewish History in Modern Times

    Steven BellerARTICLEGerman Politics & Society2001

    Michael Meyer, ed., Michael Brenner, asst. ed., German-Jewish History in Modern Times, volume 3, Integration in Dispute: 1871-1918; volume 4, Renewal and Destruction: 1918-1945 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997, 1998)