Hirschmann, Sigmund: “I am delighted at the conduct of the Jewish officers” field post letter printed in Dr. Bloch's Oesterreichische Wochenschrift, the central organ for the general interests of the Jews, Vienna, 18 December 1914, p. 877

For Austrian Jews, the Habsburg Monarchy as a supranational entity meant the possibility of developing an identity that was not based solely on membership of a national, ethnic or religious body. They saw themselves as the backbone of an integrative force loyal to the Imperial family within the multiethnic state, and advocated multinationalism up to the end of the war.