Table of Contents

Foreword by Fritz Stern: Subtle Silence and its Consequences Part I. Peter Pulzer and his Work 1: Peter Pulzer: From Danube to Isis. A Career in Two Cultures 2: Henning Tewes: The Committed Observer of a Janus-faced Century. Peter Pulzer on Liberalism, Anti-Semitism and Democracy 3: Andrei S. Markovits: Peter Pulzer's Writing on Political Anti-Semitism and the Jewish Question in Germany and Austria: An Assessment Part II: Liberalism and Anti-Semitism in Austria and Germany 4: Anton Pelinka: Anti-Semitism and Ethno-Nationalism as Determining Factors for the Beginnings of Austria's Political Culture at the `fin de siècle' 5: Jan Palmowski: Between Dependence and Influence: Jews and Liberalism in Frankfurt am Main, 1864-1933 6: Jonathan Wright: Liberalism and Anti-Semitism in Germany: the Case of Gustav Stresemann 7: Jan-Werner Müller: Compromised Republicans: The Vernunftrepublikaner and the Transformation of Liberal Thought from Weimar to the Federal Republic Part III: Citizenship and Human Rights 8: Sudhir Hazareesingh: Jacobinism Redefined: Second Empire Municipalism and the Emergence of Republican Citizenship 9: David Southern: The Hitory of Human Rights in Germany Part IV: Continuity and Change since the Second World War 10: Wolgang C. Müller: Party Building and Consociational Democracy in Post-War Austria 11: David Hine: Liberalism as a Sub-Culture. The Case of Italy 12: William E. Paterson: Between Mutual Support and Misunderstanding: the British Labour Party and the SPD 13: Max Kaase: A New Government - A New Democracy? The Red-Green Coalition in Germany Part V: A Celebration of Genius 14: David Schoenbaum: Fiddlers on the Roof: Some Thoughts on a Special Relationship

Reviews

All in all the Festschrift more than does justice to the academic excellence that Peter Pulzer showed throughout his long career ... a volume that is both eminently readable and is a fine testament to an excellent academic. German Politics Stern's discussion of 'subtle silence' and the consequences this can have for the both liberalism and democracy is both well-argued and intellectually stimulating. He eloquently and persuasively guides the reader through the intrinsic difficulties a society has in understanding 'self', demonstrating that throughout the 20th century Germans, more so than most, remained silent at crucial times when finding their collective voice was called for. German Politics