The manpower records of the Habsburg Army are so detailed that even a cursory survey would give a good overview of the fate that awaited most Jewish recruits. Although there were cases to the...
On 6th January 1791, Captain Joseph Baron von Soyer signed the papers of two soldiers who were to be transferred from the 1st Staff Infantry Regiment to the Imperial-Royal Military Transport Corps (k.k. Militar-Fuhrwesens-Corps)....
von Ilya Berkovich In the history of the Jews in Hohenems and Vorarlberg by Rabbi Dr. Aron Tänzer (1871-1937), we are told that in 1812 a mutual aid society was formed in the Jewish...
Von Ilya BERKOVICH Traditionell gehörten Soldaten zu den am besten dokumentierten Gruppen der vormodernen Gesellschaft. Während der Hauptgrund dafür in einer Kombination aus militärischen und finanziellen Überlegungen liegt, enthalten die Aufzeichnungen über die Soldaten...
