Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction
5. Intro 1
6. The Historical Continuity of the Viennese Jewish Experience 6
7. Chapter 1. The Fin de Siècle
8. The Jewish Immigrant Experience in Vienna 10
9. The Jewish Confrontation with a New Political Climate 15
10. Jewish Cultural Responses 22
11. Arthur Schnitzler 25
12. Adolf Dessauer 38
13. Felix Salten 42
14. Stefan Zweig 50
15. Hugo von Hofmannsthal 54
16. Karl Kraus 57
17. Theodor Herzl 63
18. Richard Beer-Hofmann 77
19. Conclusion 82
20. Chapter 2. Jewish Vienna Between the World Wars
21. Jewish Identity and World War I 93
22. A New Jewish Identity Crisis 99
23. Rising Anti-Semitism 102
24. The Beginning of the End 103
25. Jews and the Anschluss 105
26. Jewish Cultural Responses During the Interwar Years 106
27. Arthur Schnitzler 109
28. Felix Salten 114
29. Stefan Zweig 121
30. Joseph Roth 128
31. Karl Kraus 139
32. Hugo Bettauer 142
33. Elias Canetti 147
34. Veza Canetti 156
35. Conclusion 164
36. Chapter 3. Jews and the Second Republic
37. Introduction 174
38. The Immediate Postwar Situation 175
39. The Second Republic 177
40. Austrian Jews and the Second Republic 181
41. Jewish Identity after 1945 184
42. Ilse Aichinger 185
43. Friedrich Torberg 195
44. Hilde Spiel 203
45. Conclusion 214
46. Chapter 4. Viennese Jews from Waldheim to Haider and Beyond
47. Introduction 220
48. The Waldheim Affair 221
49. Jewish Writers and Vienna after Waldheim 225
50. Contemporary Viennese Jewish Writing 227
51. Ruth Beckermann 229
52. Robert Schindel 237
53. Doron Rabinovici 243
54. Robert Menasse 250
55. Eva Menasse 255
56. Elfriede Jelinek 261
57. Conclusion 265
58. Conclusion 271
59. Bibliography 274
60. Index 285