{"title":"Spotlighting Deák’s Admirers: Lay and Specialist, Then and Now","authors":"D. Reill","doi":"10.5325/jaustamerhist.7.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaustamerhist.7.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Austrian-American History, “How East Central Europe Changed: The István Deák School of History,” discusses the salient points of the twelve contributions to the issue. It compares these specialists’ analyses of what made Deák’s work so important with the jury comments from the 2020 Friuli Storia Prize, which was made up mostly of lay judges. The introduction also gives insight into how the special issue was conceived, how it intersected with the January 2023 death of the main subject of the collection, and how this influenced the pieces included.","PeriodicalId":148947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Austrian-American History","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116328949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"István Deák’s Caste Honor","authors":"A. F. Johnson","doi":"10.5325/jaustamerhist.7.1.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaustamerhist.7.1.0044","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 István Deák was an expert on the Habsburg officer corps and argued convincingly that the defense of honor was central to its self-understanding. Deák confronts contradictory evidence about the extent of antisemitism in the Austro-Hungarian officer corps as well as the question of whether or not Jewish officers were treated by their peers as men with honor. Because of his immense erudition, Deák was able to approach these questions with a sensitivity to interpretation that creates a model for future scholars.","PeriodicalId":148947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Austrian-American History","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121108244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Lawful” Revisionism? The Lawful Revolution and the Revision of 1848 in Hungarian Historiography","authors":"Gábor Egry","doi":"10.5325/jaustamerhist.7.1.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaustamerhist.7.1.0027","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The article dissects the reception of István Deák’s The Lawful Revolution within Hungarian historiography. It argues that strangely the book was a precursor of a deeper revision of the history of 1848, and still it is not a major reference. Deák’s ambiguous position as a US-Hungarian historian made possible to read his work less with an eye of the broader historical revisionism it promoted, a nonnationalist reading of Habsburg history, and to use it instead to make various arguments within the field of the politics of memory.","PeriodicalId":148947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Austrian-American History","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132078490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"István Deák and Historical Empathy","authors":"Eliza Ablovatski","doi":"10.5325/jaustamerhist.7.1.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaustamerhist.7.1.0037","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 István Deák’s work resonates so strongly because of his empathetic approach to the people of the past. His understanding of the multifaceted identities of historical actors informed his approach to denationalizing the study of East Central Europe and to complicating the narratives of collaboration and resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe. Deák’s approach anticipated intersectionalism, reminding readers how facets of individual identity interact with their changing historical circumstances. Following his example, Deák’s students have pioneered revisions of the histories of national and imperial performances, national indifference, retribution, and instrumental collaborations.","PeriodicalId":148947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Austrian-American History","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114467346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Of Modeling and Morality: Writing World War II","authors":"Jennifer L. Foray","doi":"10.5325/jaustamerhist.7.1.0086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaustamerhist.7.1.0086","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This contribution focuses on István Deák’s formative influence on the scholarship of Nazi occupation, collaboration, resistance, and the Holocaust, including his pan-European approach to these topics. It pays particular attention to his long-standing focus on individual decision-making and moral culpability as well as his ability to empathize with his historical actors, albeit without relativizing or justifying their behavior. Further, it discusses how Deák’s approach to writing for multiple audiences shaped a generation of his students and scholars.","PeriodicalId":148947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Austrian-American History","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121821230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A “Deák School of History”","authors":"P. Judson","doi":"10.5325/jaustamerhist.7.1.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaustamerhist.7.1.0009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article argues that—fully unintentionally—István Deák founded a distinctive school of history among the students he mentored. The school took inspiration from Deák’s captivating style, clear argumentation, and empathetic moral capacity. In particular, however, Deák and his students sought explanations for social, cultural, and political phenomena in East Central Europe outside the constricting boundaries of the nationalism that dominated this field of history. Before Benedict Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm, and Ernest Gellner revived constructivist theories of the nation from very different perspectives in the 1980s, Deák’s wary approach to nationalism and the Habsburg monarchy would become a key element that defined the school of historians that grew up around him. In doing so he and they radically reshaped our understanding of the region and its history.","PeriodicalId":148947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Austrian-American History","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125191529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From a Place of Paradoxical Plurals","authors":"Holly Case, Máté Rigó","doi":"10.5325/jaustamerhist.7.1.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaustamerhist.7.1.0018","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The contribution describes István Deák as both personification and propagator of paradoxical plurals, or seemingly self-contradictory elements concentrated in a single entity. Drawing on examples from his life, scholarship, public-facing writings, and extensive interview material, the authors explore this facet of his career and person.","PeriodicalId":148947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Austrian-American History","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122707649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rights without Ratification: How the US Government Found Its Way to Peace with Austria in the 1920s","authors":"Nicole M. Phelps","doi":"10.5325/pennhistory.6.2.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.6.2.0105","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 After the US Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles in 1920, the US government needed to find an alternate, politically viable route to a legal termination of its state of war with Germany, Austria, and Hungary. This was necessary to reopen diplomatic and trade relations, end domestic wartime legislation in the United States, settle a range of war-induced property claims, and, in Austria, to secure a League of Nations economic restructuring plan. In the Knox-Porter Resolution, or July Resolution, Congress claimed rights based on November 1918 armistices and the subsequent Paris treaties, even as they refused to ratify those actual treaties. This resolution formed the basis of the 1921 US treaties with Austria, Hungary, and Germany. The process of settling property claims dragged on until the end of the decade. The coverage in the New York Times reveals the importance of conflicts between the executive and legislative branches, partisanship and debates over the future of US foreign policy, US politicians’ focus on Germany rather than on the particular circumstances facing Austria, and a commitment to protecting private property rights as elements that shaped and prolonged the process of reaching a US-Austrian peace.","PeriodicalId":148947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Austrian-American History","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114441023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Progress, Interrupted: American Students of Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna","authors":"C. Tewinkel","doi":"10.5325/pennhistory.6.2.0136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.6.2.0136","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Musical training, for the amount of time and the diligence it takes, has often been metaphorized as a long and arduous journey, with Johann Joseph Fux’s 1725 instructional book for piano players, Gradus ad Parnassum, being a case in point. For young US American pianists at the turn of the century, the idea of instrumental training as a gradual progress toward a goal blended in with the actual experience of crossing the ocean to study with European teachers. The Vienna-based pianist Theodor Leschetizky (1830–1915) counted among the most popular teachers for American students. While no musical expedition, whether figurative or real, comes without obstacles, Leschetizky introduced a particular barrier for those interested in making a career in music. He employed assistant teachers that prepared students before they were allowed to proceed and work with him directly. This strategy turned out to be rather rewarding financially, and it also catered to fundamental concepts about artistic achievement and transatlantic relations held by the classical music scene. In this article, I will address the special appeal that Leschetizky’s gatekeeping regimen had for pianists from the United States. I will describe organizational, financial, and aesthetic implications as well as the consequences that accepting or refusing this system had for American students. In doing this, I will draw on unpublished documents from the archive of the New York Leschetizky Association and on reports from Leschetizky students and assistants.","PeriodicalId":148947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Austrian-American History","volume":"448 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125795772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wiener Schmäh and the Americans","authors":"David S. Luft","doi":"10.5325/pennhistory.6.2.0174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.6.2.0174","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Kurt Rudolf Fischer was, perhaps more than anyone else in the postwar era, the person who connected the University of Vienna and Austrian students to American intellectual and academic life. He was a beloved teacher and a remarkable human being, who made many friends in both Austria and the United States. On May 12, 2022, the philosophy department of the University of Vienna celebrated 100 years since Kurt’s birth. The following essay was one of the presentations at this international conference.","PeriodicalId":148947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Austrian-American History","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124679330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}