The Rise and Fall of Archbishop Kohn
Czechs, Germans, and Jews in Turn-of-the-Century Moravia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4208146 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael L Miller (0000-0003-3762-3319, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 446-474 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4148659 |
| OpenAlex | W2314929413 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article uses the career of Theodor Kohn (1845-1915), archbishop of Olmütz/Olomouc between 1892 and 1904, to examine various trends in the last decades of the Habsburg empire: the burgeoning Czech-German conflict, the brewing social crisis within the Catholic Church, the rising tide of anti-Semitism, and the countervailing force of Jewish national pride. Drawing on a wide range of literary, publicist, and archival sources, Michael L. Miller shows how Archbishop Kohn's Jewish ancestry served as a lightening rod for various disenfranchised, disillusioned, and disheartened groups in the Bohemian Lands of the Habsburg empire. Even Jews latched onto this "Jewish archbishop," first as a symbol of "racial aptitude," then as a cautionary tale about the futility of assimilation. Kohn himself endowed his quintessentially "Jewish" name with Christian significance, viewing it as the source of his suffering-albeit a suffering that he cherished as the cross he had to bear
Ancient history · Archaeology · Archbishop · Empire · German · Judaism · Symbol (formal · Central European national history · Classics · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |