The Bettauer, Hugo 1872-1925 creator Brainin, Salomea Neumark 1899-1985 text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Stadt_ohne_Juden_(novel) Release date is 2025-06-14 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) Originally published: New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1926 Antisemitism -- Austria -- Fiction Jews -- Austria -- Fiction PT New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1926 https://archive.org/details/citywithoutjews0000unse/page/n3/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76288 https://archive.org/details/citywithoutjews0000unse/page/n3/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76288 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134751.0 76288