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Jewishness and the Viennese Volkssänger | 119 and performing musicians to create their own fl ag. For this purpose, they organized a festive procession accompanied by riders on horseback wearing traditional old German costume as well as a fanfare of brass music. A band, numerous girls dressed in white, and fi nally the Volkssänger followed. Th e mayor Karl Lueger and other offi cials were already waiting in the church where the fl ag consecration ceremony took place. Th ousands of people attended the celebration concluding the church ceremony (see IWE 283 [15 October 1900]: 3). 95. Das Variété 21 (25 March 1903): n.p. 96. Bernhard Giesen, Kollektive Identität: Die Intellektuellen und die Nation 2 (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1999), 32. 97. IWE 128 (10 May 1903): 27. 98. Albert Hirsch, Ein riskirtes Geschäft, Niederösterreichisches Landesarchiv [NÖLA in sub sequent citations] (Th eaterzensur), Box 21/12 (1897). 99. Hirsch, Geschäft, 11. 100. IWE 130 (12 May 1903): 12. 101. IWE 130 (12 May 1903): 11–12. 102. IWE 144 (26 May 1903): 9. 103. IWE 269 (1 October 1903): 8; IWE 6 (6 January 1904): 9. 104. IWE 181 (1 July 1904): 15; IWE 200 (20 July 1904): 9. 105. IWE 318 (16 November 1904): 13. 106. IWE 181 (1 July 1904): 15; IWE (20 July 1904): 9. 107. IWE 213 (2 August 1904): 15. 108. IWE 318 (16 November 1904): 13. 109. IWE 44 (13 February 1904): 18. 110. IWE 227 (20 August 1903): 7. 111. IWE 340 (11 December 1903): 14. 112. IWE 80 (22 March 1903): 4. 113. Robert S. Wistrich, Th e Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph (Oxford: Littman Li- brary of Jewish Civilization, 1990), 65. 114. Peter Pulzer, Th e Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988). 115. Bruce F. Pauley, From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 45. 116. Hannah Arendt, Die verborgene Tradition: Essays (Frankfurt: Jüdischer Verlag, 2000), 86. 117. George E. Berkley, Vienna and Its Jews: Th e Tragedy of Success, 1880s–1980s (Boston: Madison Books, 1988), 106. 118. Koller, Volkssängertum, 114. 119. IWE 150 (2 June 1903): 8. 120. Karl Rötzer, Wiener in Constantinopel oder im Harem!, NÖLA 21/10 (1896). 121. Louis Taufstein, Der Herr Hekler: Posse (1909; 42 pp.), NÖLA (Zensurakten), Box 29/2. Taufstein composed numerous farces, in particular for the Budapest Orpheum Society. In later years, he also wrote operettas and fi lm scripts. He was murdered by the National Socialists in 1942. 122. An example of the cultivation of relationships that mask existing antisemitism is the professional cooperation between the councilman Rudolf Spannagel, a member of the antisemitic Christian Social Party, and his accountant, Goldstein. Th ey opened a meat stall in a Viennese market hall, despite the fact that neither of them possessed the neces- This open access edition has been made available under a CC BY 4.0 license thanks to the support of Knowledge Unlatched.