Tante Jolesch or the Decline of the West in Anecdotes

Name: Tante Jolesch or the Decline of the West in Anecdotes
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ISBN: 9781572411494

ISBN-10: 157241149X

ISBN-13: 9781572411494

Edition: 2006

Authors: Friedrich Torberg, Maria Poglitsch Bauer, Sonat Hart

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Already a much loved classic in Austria, "Tante Jolesch or the Decline of the West in Anecdotes" is Friedrich Torberg's tribute to the Jewish coffee-house world that flourished in Vienna in the afterglow of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until its final collapse in 1938. Based on Torberg's personal memories of intellectuals and eccentrics of the time, including Egon Friedell, Fritz Gruuml;nbaum, Egon Erwin Kisch, Alfred Polgar, and Franz Werfel, this work evokes the storytelling and humour prominent among Vienna's coffee-house denizens. These anecdotes allow one to see into the lives of assimilated Jews before the Shoah, beginning in the living room of Tante Jolesch, revolving around the…

Book details

Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Ariadne Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 8.46" wide x 5.51" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



By Way of Introduction


Tante Jolesch - in Person


Digression About the Little Word "What"


Uncles, Nephews, and Rabbis


Of Surly Eccentrics (and Domestics)


Culinary Intermezzo


At the Card Table


Summer Vacation


The Prague Hierarchy


To Be Read for Pleasure and Instruction


Editorial Postscript


There's Coffeehouse in Everything


"Robbers, Murderers, Molesters"


Delvers into the Subconscious


Do You Like Sports?


Everything (Or Almost Everything) About Franz Molnar


Closing the Circle


Turning Points: Before - In the Thick of Things - and Afterwards


Epilogue


A Sentimental Preface (1966)


Urbis Conditor - the City's Confectioner (1958)


Sacher and Contra Sacher (1961)


Treatise on the Viennese Coffeehouse (1959)


Requiem for a Headwaiter (1958)


Notes


Afterword