Project Gutenberg 2025-06-14 Public domain in the USA. 144 Bettauer, Hugo 1872 1925 Betthauer, Maximilian Hugo Brainin, Salomea Neumark 1899 1985 Neumark, Salomea Die Stadt ohne Juden. English The city without Jews : $b A novel of our time $aNew York :$bBloch Publishing Company, $c1926. Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Stadt_ohne_Juden_(novel) Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, Joyce Wilson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The city without Jews : A novel of our time" by Hugo Bettauer is a novel written in the early 20th century. It imagines Vienna expelling all Jews and people of Jewish origin, and follows the political, economic, and cultural upheaval that ensues. Central figures include the hard-line Chancellor Dr. Karl Schwertfeger and ordinary Viennese such as Lotte Spineder and her lover Leo Strakosch, whose lives are torn by the new regime. The opening of the novel depicts Parliament ramming through an anti-Jewish expulsion law under Schwertfeger’s incendiary speech, its swift passage, and the city’s raucous celebrations after the last trains depart. Short vignettes show immediate fallout: a politician discovers his son‑in‑law’s Jewish origins, artists despair (one commits suicide), sex workers fear losing their clientele, and some Christians convert in solidarity. Schwertfeger’s later briefing reveals grim realities—financial shortfalls, foreign takeovers, social dislocation, and families split by lineage rules—despite public euphoria. Part Two shifts to letters and episodes that chart Vienna’s decline: Lotte writes Leo in Paris of initial cheer turning to unemployment, cultural stagnation, and a collapsing currency; department stores struggle, cafés empty, banks retreat; and finally Leo returns incognito, rents a studio, and secretly reunites with Lotte in her family’s garden. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/citywithoutjews0000unse/page/n3/mode/2up 20221031064918bettauer 1926 US Reading ease score: 66.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Antisemitism -- Austria -- Fiction Jews -- Austria -- Fiction PT Text Category: Novels Category: German Literature 265996 2025-09-30T07:07:30.068421 text/html 240529 2025-06-14T01:46:56 text/html 603159 2025-09-30T07:07:35.849399 application/epub+zip 600691 2025-09-30T07:07:31.451367 application/epub+zip 244013 2025-09-30T07:07:30.618457 application/epub+zip 1037935 2025-09-30T07:07:39.085392 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 750979 2025-09-30T07:07:35.255367 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 236070 2025-09-30T07:07:29.636406 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 216096 2025-06-14T01:46:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17238 2025-09-30T07:07:39.227353 application/rdf+xml 10474 2025-09-30T07:07:30.827411 image/jpeg 1790 2025-09-30T07:07:30.722391 image/jpeg 828148 2025-09-30T07:07:30.103404 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog de.wikipedia en.wikipedia