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Simulblogged at Holocaust Controversies Today, I updated the list of Citations of Holocaust Controversies in the Literature, adding two sources: a book on the Kurdish and Armenian genocides published back in 2007 by Desmond Fernandes, who was a senior lecturer in geography at De Montfort University in the U.K.; and a book on anti-imperialism from 2018 by Rohini Hensman. …

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The final candidate to enter the race was Jakob Brod, whose candidacy Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung announced on March 8: “In Czernowitz-East, the Social Democratic party will run as a candidate against Dr. Straucher the secretary of the Lower Austrian Social Democratic state executive, Dawid [sic] Brod.”[1] Beyond mistaking the candidate’s first name for another characteristically Jewish name, the item says …

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Of all the candidates, Wojtko was the most unusual. Like virtually every other candidate for the mandates from Czernowitz, Wojtko had served on the city council; however, he was the sole candidate representing the city’s working class. While Grigorovici represented the working class party, the SDAP, he was a political journalist and had trained as …

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A New Electoral System On January 26, 1907, Emperor Franz Joseph signed a law establishing universal male suffrage for Austrian voters. In a state that had been democratizing over the course of several decades, most recently including the addition of a voting curia for men at least 25 years old, the 1907 law was a …

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One of my Twitter mutuals, Denying History (whom you should follow!), told me the other day that he found online an old essay I wrote about genocide denial in Rwanda and the similarities in the rhetoric used by proponents of both movements: Genocide denial and the case of Rwanda As I told my mutual, I thought …

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Trouble Next Door             In mid-February, a peasant revolt began in Romania, specifically in northern Moldavia, the region of the country directly bordering Bukovina. That the uprising began on estates employing Jewish leaseholders resulted in a high level of anti-Jewish violence, at least initially. As the revolt spread across the country, however, it became marked …

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Simulblogged at Holocaust Controversies Over at the cesspit, our old friend Hannover tends to repeat himself a fair bit. One of his “greatest hits” is the claim that the idea that Jewish law generally forbids the exhumation of mass graves is a ruse designed to hide the “fact” that there are, in reality, no mass …

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The 1907 election for the lower house of the Austrian legislature (the Reichsrat) was the first held after the central government in Vienna granted universal male suffrage. In the empire’s easternmost province of Bukovina — today divided between Ukraine and Romania — fourteen electoral districts were established, including two in the capital city of Czernowitz. The …

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