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Sandra Goldstein David Vogel: Love Story in Vienna or the Metropolis David Vogel (1891–1944) is a Viennese writer who wrote in Hebrew. He was born in the Ukraine and in 1912 he settled in Vienna where he lived most of his short and tormented life. For a short time, he lived in Palestine, Paris and Berlin. After fleeing to Paris in 1933, he was interned in France in 1940 as an Austrian enemy alien. In 1944 he was caught by the Gestapo deported to Auschwitz where he is presumed to have died. The novel Married Life, his sole novel , was first published in Tel Aviv in 1930 and was translated into German only in 1992 by Ruth Achlama . His Hebrew sounds more German than Hebrew as Vogel translated from German and Yiddish without taking into consideration the rules and norms of the Hebrew language. Critics have situated Vogel’s literary abilities as comparable to those of Elias Ca- netti and Primo Levi and considered his Married Life a puissant novel of the metropo- lis among two other great novels of the period, Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz and James Joyce’s Ulysses. In the following pages I wish to highlight Vogel’s novel as the story of the Jews in Vienna after the first World War ; as one of the greatest accounts of modern metropo- lis and as the story of modern man in modern Vienna. The Marriage – A Jewish Viennese Itinerary Set in Vienna in the 1920s, the novel recounts the married life of the Viennese Jewish intellectual Rudolf Gordweil and the Viennese Baroness Thea von Tacow. This match illustrates the successful acculturation of the Jewish population in the monarchy, just as the protagonist’s name — Rudolf, like the crown prince — does. We are familiar with the Jewish bourgeois tendency to name their off-spring by Among his works are collections of poems and several novellas edited posthumously by Menachem Perry. First published by Paul List Verlag, München, Leipzig 1992.