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realm (see Klaus Hödl, “Th
e Quest for Amusement: Jewish Leisure Activities in Vi-
enna circa 1900,” Jewish Culture and History 15 (2012): 1–17, http://www.tandfonline
.com/eprint/yzPgEjuSfb2QZZS7tgWq/full [accessed 12 January 2019]). An additional
example of the horse-and-buggy theme appears in the song “Leb’ wohl, Du altes Tram-
waypferd, Du hast für d’neue Zeit kein Werth” (Farewell, you old tramway horse, you
are worthless in this new day and age), which helped Adolfi
, Albert Hirsch’s son, attain
initial success.
66. Joachim Radkau, Das Zeitalter der Nervosität: Deutschland zwischen Bismarck und Hitler
(Munich: Carl Hanser, 1998), 173–259.
67. Beard is said to have outlined “neurasthenia” in 1869 (Charles E. Rosenberg, “Th e Place
of Georg M. Beard in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine
36 [1962]: 248.) But another American had used the term in a lecture already a year
prior (Philip P. Wiener, “G. M. Beard and Freud on American Nervousness,” Journal of
the History of Ideas 2 [1956]: 271).
68. Martin Engländer, “Die auff
allend häufi gen Krankheitserscheinungen der jüdischen
Rasse” (Vienna, 1902), 16.
69. IWE 4 (4 January 1903): 27.
70. Max Nordau, Degeneration (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993).
71. Richard Guttmann, Variété: Beiträge zur Psychologie des Pöbels (Vienna: Deutsch-Öster-
reichischer Verlag, 1919).
72. IWE 297 (28 October 1902): 5.
73. Johann Kwapil (1818–1910) was by profession a tailor. After a stay in England, he took
over as manager of the Universum in the Viennese district Brittengau in 1853 and stayed
there nine years. Later, he directed various Volkssänger ensembles and singspiel halls (see
Koller, Volkssängertum, 16).
74. IWE 73 (14 March 1896): 3.
75. IWE 74 (15 March 1896): 3.
76. IWE 77 (18 March 1896): 4.
77. IWE 76 (17 March 1896): 3.
78. IWE 144 (26 May 1903): 9.
79. Das Variété 13 (25 January 1903): n.p.
80. IWE 20 (20 January 1903): 6.
81. Das Variété 20 (18 March 1903): n.p.
82. IWE 69 (11 March 1903): 3.
83. IWE 74 (16 March 1903): 3.
84. Das Variété 20 (18 March 1903): n.p.
85. IWE 74 (16 March 1903): 3.
86. Das Variété 21 (25 March 1903): n.p.
87. On this point, see also IWE 198 (22 July 1901): 3.
88. Das Variété 21 (25 March 1903) : n.p.
89. Das Varieté 21 (25 March 1903): n.p.
90. Because Hirsch was born in Vienna, Recher did not explicitly include him in this desig-
nation, but it may well have been implicitly directed at him.
91. Das Variété 21 (25 March 1903) : n.p.
92. Das Variété 21 (25 March 1903) : n.p.
93. Das Variété 21 (25 March 1903) : n.p.
94. Das Variété 21 (25 March 1903): n.p. Th is ceremony allowed the Viennese Volkssänger
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Entangled Entertainers
Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
- Title
- Entangled Entertainers
- Subtitle
- Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
- Author
- Klaus Hödl
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-78920-031-7
- Size
- 14.86 x 23.2 cm
- Pages
- 196
- Categories
- Geschichte Vor 1918
- International
Table of contents
- Introduction 1
- 1. Jews in Viennese Popular Culture around 1900 as Research Topic 13
- 2. Jewish Volkssänger and Musical Performers in Vienna around 1900 44
- 3. Jewishness and the Viennese Volkssänger 78
- 4. Jewish Spaces of Retreat at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 121
- 5. From Difference to Similarity 148
- Conclusion 163
- Bibliography 166
- Index 179