Tante Jolesch Or The Decline Of The West In Anecdotes

Presents a 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 the author's personal memories of intellectuals and eccentrics of the time, this work intends to evoke the storytelling and humour prominent among Vienna's coffee-house denizens.