Vienna Is Different

<p> Assessing the impact of <em>fin-de-siècle</em> Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later the Austrian nation assumed a special significance in the imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author focuses on the special relationship between Austrian-Jewish writers and the city to reveal a century-long pattern of living in tension with the city experiencing simultaneously acceptance and exclusion feeling <em>unheimlich heimisch</em> (eerily at home) in Vienna.</p>