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Albert Lichtblau (* 1954 ) is an Austrian historian. He is Professor of Contemporary History, Head of the History Department at the University of Salzburg and Deputy Head of the Center for Jewish Cultural History at the University of Salzburg.

Life

Albert Lichtblau studied history and political science at the University of Vienna . He received his doctorate in 1980 from the University of Vienna (Dr. phil.) With the work Beginnings of Communal Housing Policy in Vienna from 1892-1919 . In 1992 he completed his habilitation at the University of Salzburg with the thesis Social Structure, Social Tension and Anti-Semitism: a comparative study of the social strata of the anti-Semitic movements in Berlin and Vienna from emancipation to the First World War .

From 1987 to 1989 he worked as a research assistant at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the TU Berlin. Then he moved to the University of Salzburg. Until 2003 he worked as a freelancer at the Institute for the History of the Jews in St. Pölten. There he was u. a. involved in the book project History of the Jews in Austria . Among other things, he conducted numerous interviews as part of the Survivors of the Shoah project of the Visual History Foundation .

He is co-initiator of www.unitv.org. His main research interests include a. Migration, Racism, Politics of Remembrance, Oral History and Audiovisual History. He is the creator of several documentaries.

Publications (selection)

• Leo Baeck Institute. As if we had belonged: Austrian-Jewish life stories from the Habsburg monarchy . Böhlau, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-205-98722-5 .
• Anti-Semitism and social tension in Berlin and Vienna 1867–1914 . Metropol, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-926893-18-4 .
• "Aryanizations", confiscated assets, provisions and compensation in Salzburg . Oldenbourg, Vienna / Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7029-0522-7 .
• Vienna Housing Policy 1892–1919 . Publishing house for social criticism , Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-900351-33-3 .
• Sabine Jahn (ed.): "We only wanted paradise on earth": The memories of a Jewish communist from Bukowina / Prive Friedjung (=  So that it does not get lost . Volume 31 ). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1995.
• The debates about the ritual murder accusations in the Austrian House of Representatives at the end of the 19th century. In: Rainer Erb (ed.): The legend of ritual murder - On the history of the blood accusation against Jews. (= Technische Universität Berlin : Center for Research on Antisemitism . Series of Documents, Texts, Materials. Volume 6). Metropol, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-926893-15-X , pp. 267-293.

Web links

• Literature by and about Albert Lichtblau in the catalog of the German National Library
• Albert Lichtblau on the website of the University of Salzburg
• Interview with Prof. Albert Lichtblau: Oral History - Interview management and interview interpretation
• History Department website
• Website of the Center for Jewish Cultural History
• www.unitv.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albert Lichtblau on the website of the University of Salzburg
2. ↑ http://cba.fro.at/109121
3. ↑ Information on Albert Lichtblau in the Salzburgwiki
4. ↑ http://members.magnet.at/injoest/deutsch/mitarbeiterinnen.html ( Memento from December 9, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ http://members.magnet.at/injoest/deutsch/projekte/geschichte_austria.html ( Memento from February 3, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ http://www.zwangsarbeit-archiv.de/projekt/experteninterviews/lichtblau/index.html
7. ↑ Via www.unitv.org
8. ↑ Information on the website of the City of Salzburg