Anti-Semitism, Gender Bias, and the "Hervay Affair" of 1904: Bigotry in the Austrian Alps

by Alison Rose (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2016

  $88.98

  The arrest and trial of Frau von Hervay for bigamy, which took place in rural Austria in 1904, is used as a starting point to examine local prejudice against Jews and women. The book also explores the circumstances that contributed to turning the Hervay Affair into a major spectacle.