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D k I Pen aun men ee h. . S
The Jewish Tribune, January 4, 1924
Monthly Magazine Section
Vienna Before the Swastika
Arther Schnitzler’s Discussion of Jewish Problems in His Novel The Road t
every possible occasion the obj
„HIANKS to the vigilant zeal of Mr. John S. Sum¬
By GERALD GINSBERG
castic wit. He likes nothing
ner ald his ever-watchful flunkies of the Society
is a particularly brilliant assem
for th: Suppression of Vice, Dr. Arthur Schnitzler,
in and begin talking Niddish, or
of Vienna, is now more than a name to the American
upon Zionism, of which he has
electorate. In much the same manner that fame has
ciple (the first Basle Congress #
come in recent vears to Rabelais, Cabell, Sherwood An¬
the opening of the novel). Suc
derson, to mention just a few victims of the contempo¬
old Ehrenberg always greatly
rary atrocities committed by our purist-cossack friends,
members of the Ehrenberg fa#
this Viennese gentleman was singled out by the puri¬
tolerable Oskar with his ariste
tanical inquisition for his Dr. Casanova’s Homecoming'
his lips in mortification and #
andReigen.“ Suppression of the works produced the
upon th elder Ehrenberg, satistic
usual results: the smut-seeking booboisie hunted out
malice, would also retire, for h
the books and undoubtedly gloated over thie passages
his wife's at homes. The relat
which offended the literary sensibilities of those of our
son reached a dramatic climax
policemen and vice-sniffers who can read; thus instead
in a letter to the Baron from ###
of greedily eyeing the burlesque queens in tights who
mann, who wrote:
adorn the front covers of Dhe Police Gasette, they had
Yesterday Oskar passes by th
something else to talk about wiien they weren't gath¬
about twelve o’clock mid-day and
ered in fraternal counsel around the latest edition of
know that at the present time pie
craze going, and so perhaps it i#
the Dailg Racing Form. However, thanks to the
any further explanation, as, 10
young aristocrats happened to
magic and virtuous De Mille touch, one of Dr. Schnitz¬
church and that Oskar wanted
ler’s most delightful plays, The Affairs of Anatol' was
for their special benefit. God
previously been guilty of this
placed before the proletariat by Famous Players in such
found out, but as luck would haf
highly moralizing adornments, that whereas the author
day that old Ehrenberg comes
same moment. He sees Oskar
would never have recognized it (if he had, he woul
*
*
front of the church door
promptly have blown his brains out) at least the gooc
uncontrollable rage he gives his
0
ears then and there. A box
people of the land were, for the time being, saved fron
lieutenant in the reserve! Mid¬
So it is not particulan
town!
ruinous downfall.
story was known all over the tow
Over in the enlightened circles of Mittel-Europa, it
It is already in some of thé pa
□
ones leave it severely alone, ex
has been the practice for a good many years to pounce
mongering rags, the anti-Semitic
P.
thie Open,“ although it isn't a Jewish
But“
upon Dr. Schnitzler whenever the defenders of the one
it hot and strong. The Christlich
and insists on both the Ehrenber
the best Jewish novel that has ever
novel, is probabl)
and true faith decided that it was about time again to
a jury for sacrilege or blasphem
been writtee. The story is primarily concerned with the
settle the old score against the Jews. Of course, the
It is in the long conversati
youthful Baron George von Wergentin (example of
Vienna Jew-baiters, not being familiar with the cul¬
and Heinrich Bermann, brillian
that delightful, charming type of cultural Viennese who
ture of their land which they were attempting to safe¬
cal, the intellectual Jew. Lwho¬
inhabited that gay capital before the war, and who has
guard, would not have been expected to know that the
nor Zionistic, flames up again
probabi gone off mito hiding since the advent of the
fairy charm of old Vienna had been immortalized prob¬
of his age, that Schnitzler sho
Hakenkruezler), and his wistful love affair with Frau¬
ably more by this Jew, Schnitzler, than by any other
Christian free from prejudices
lein Anna Rosner, one of that colorful intellectual group
of the artists who have inade it one of the great intel¬
sible for a Christian to be).
of writers, musicians and bon vivants with whom the
lectual centers of the world. Here in America, al¬
derstand why these Jewish frien
baron lives a carefree and delightful existence in gay
though Scimitzler has been a shrine at which those few
his are always bringing up th
Vienna, those persons who made the city the center of
who love great literary work have been happy to kneel,
getically or as if they wanted to
Europe's wit and wisdom before the great war to end
little has been known about Schnitzler, the Jew. True
home of Anna Rosner he meei
peace. As this circle includes many Jews, for with all
he was chosen by the readers of Tux Jzwisn TaBUNE
explaining how his family is re
due respects to Brother Hitler and Comrade Evans,
as one of the twelve outstanding Jews of the world,
which m mbers two militant mei
wherever there is gay wit and other manifestations of in¬
and we have no quarrel with the selection. But we have
cal political worker, and Leo, ra
tellect and cultüre, there are usually to be found Jews,
a hunch that, although the readers of this publication
When the Doctor finally adde
the whole background of the story has been utilized by
realized that this Vienna doctor, who easily brought over
The Baron is bound to know t
Schnitzler to show in his skillful handling of dialogue
the light, delicate touch, required for his surgical instru¬
to one another,'’ to quote from
what these Jews think of Jews, of Jewish movements
ments to his plays and novels, was an outstanding figure
George smiled amiably. As
and above all, how this intelligent baron, who is prob¬
in the literary world, still being members of the most
rather Jarred on his nerves. Th
ably one of the few Christians left in Austria, reacts
pugnacious and stubborn race that ever lived, they voted
all, in his view, for Doctor Stau
communicate to him his member
io Jewish culture and Jewish ideas. As it is seldom
for him more because he had been read out of society
munity. He already knew it an
that two Jews, if they are at all intelligent, can be
for it. He bore him no grudge a
by our literary Kleagles.
they always begin to talk about 1
found to agrec upon anything, the brilliant discussion of
Some years ago, at the old Irving Place Theatre,
he went, he oniy met Neus who
Jews, or the type who were prou
these highly sensitive characters, who embrace all man¬
Schnitzler’s Dr. Bernhardi’ was produced in German.
ened of people thinking they wer
ners of Jews—radical assimilatfonists, radical nationalists
This play grew out of an incident in the life of his
Thus again when he runs inte
Zienists non-Zicnists, cynics, idealists—gives under the
#uniuun irent emalset und proless0l
box 3/5
D k I Pen aun men ee h. . S
The Jewish Tribune, January 4, 1924
Monthly Magazine Section
Vienna Before the Swastika
Arther Schnitzler’s Discussion of Jewish Problems in His Novel The Road t
every possible occasion the obj
„HIANKS to the vigilant zeal of Mr. John S. Sum¬
By GERALD GINSBERG
castic wit. He likes nothing
ner ald his ever-watchful flunkies of the Society
is a particularly brilliant assem
for th: Suppression of Vice, Dr. Arthur Schnitzler,
in and begin talking Niddish, or
of Vienna, is now more than a name to the American
upon Zionism, of which he has
electorate. In much the same manner that fame has
ciple (the first Basle Congress #
come in recent vears to Rabelais, Cabell, Sherwood An¬
the opening of the novel). Suc
derson, to mention just a few victims of the contempo¬
old Ehrenberg always greatly
rary atrocities committed by our purist-cossack friends,
members of the Ehrenberg fa#
this Viennese gentleman was singled out by the puri¬
tolerable Oskar with his ariste
tanical inquisition for his Dr. Casanova’s Homecoming'
his lips in mortification and #
andReigen.“ Suppression of the works produced the
upon th elder Ehrenberg, satistic
usual results: the smut-seeking booboisie hunted out
malice, would also retire, for h
the books and undoubtedly gloated over thie passages
his wife's at homes. The relat
which offended the literary sensibilities of those of our
son reached a dramatic climax
policemen and vice-sniffers who can read; thus instead
in a letter to the Baron from ###
of greedily eyeing the burlesque queens in tights who
mann, who wrote:
adorn the front covers of Dhe Police Gasette, they had
Yesterday Oskar passes by th
something else to talk about wiien they weren't gath¬
about twelve o’clock mid-day and
ered in fraternal counsel around the latest edition of
know that at the present time pie
craze going, and so perhaps it i#
the Dailg Racing Form. However, thanks to the
any further explanation, as, 10
young aristocrats happened to
magic and virtuous De Mille touch, one of Dr. Schnitz¬
church and that Oskar wanted
ler’s most delightful plays, The Affairs of Anatol' was
for their special benefit. God
previously been guilty of this
placed before the proletariat by Famous Players in such
found out, but as luck would haf
highly moralizing adornments, that whereas the author
day that old Ehrenberg comes
same moment. He sees Oskar
would never have recognized it (if he had, he woul
*
*
front of the church door
promptly have blown his brains out) at least the gooc
uncontrollable rage he gives his
0
ears then and there. A box
people of the land were, for the time being, saved fron
lieutenant in the reserve! Mid¬
So it is not particulan
town!
ruinous downfall.
story was known all over the tow
Over in the enlightened circles of Mittel-Europa, it
It is already in some of thé pa
□
ones leave it severely alone, ex
has been the practice for a good many years to pounce
mongering rags, the anti-Semitic
P.
thie Open,“ although it isn't a Jewish
But“
upon Dr. Schnitzler whenever the defenders of the one
it hot and strong. The Christlich
and insists on both the Ehrenber
the best Jewish novel that has ever
novel, is probabl)
and true faith decided that it was about time again to
a jury for sacrilege or blasphem
been writtee. The story is primarily concerned with the
settle the old score against the Jews. Of course, the
It is in the long conversati
youthful Baron George von Wergentin (example of
Vienna Jew-baiters, not being familiar with the cul¬
and Heinrich Bermann, brillian
that delightful, charming type of cultural Viennese who
ture of their land which they were attempting to safe¬
cal, the intellectual Jew. Lwho¬
inhabited that gay capital before the war, and who has
guard, would not have been expected to know that the
nor Zionistic, flames up again
probabi gone off mito hiding since the advent of the
fairy charm of old Vienna had been immortalized prob¬
of his age, that Schnitzler sho
Hakenkruezler), and his wistful love affair with Frau¬
ably more by this Jew, Schnitzler, than by any other
Christian free from prejudices
lein Anna Rosner, one of that colorful intellectual group
of the artists who have inade it one of the great intel¬
sible for a Christian to be).
of writers, musicians and bon vivants with whom the
lectual centers of the world. Here in America, al¬
derstand why these Jewish frien
baron lives a carefree and delightful existence in gay
though Scimitzler has been a shrine at which those few
his are always bringing up th
Vienna, those persons who made the city the center of
who love great literary work have been happy to kneel,
getically or as if they wanted to
Europe's wit and wisdom before the great war to end
little has been known about Schnitzler, the Jew. True
home of Anna Rosner he meei
peace. As this circle includes many Jews, for with all
he was chosen by the readers of Tux Jzwisn TaBUNE
explaining how his family is re
due respects to Brother Hitler and Comrade Evans,
as one of the twelve outstanding Jews of the world,
which m mbers two militant mei
wherever there is gay wit and other manifestations of in¬
and we have no quarrel with the selection. But we have
cal political worker, and Leo, ra
tellect and cultüre, there are usually to be found Jews,
a hunch that, although the readers of this publication
When the Doctor finally adde
the whole background of the story has been utilized by
realized that this Vienna doctor, who easily brought over
The Baron is bound to know t
Schnitzler to show in his skillful handling of dialogue
the light, delicate touch, required for his surgical instru¬
to one another,'’ to quote from
what these Jews think of Jews, of Jewish movements
ments to his plays and novels, was an outstanding figure
George smiled amiably. As
and above all, how this intelligent baron, who is prob¬
in the literary world, still being members of the most
rather Jarred on his nerves. Th
ably one of the few Christians left in Austria, reacts
pugnacious and stubborn race that ever lived, they voted
all, in his view, for Doctor Stau
communicate to him his member
io Jewish culture and Jewish ideas. As it is seldom
for him more because he had been read out of society
munity. He already knew it an
that two Jews, if they are at all intelligent, can be
for it. He bore him no grudge a
by our literary Kleagles.
they always begin to talk about 1
found to agrec upon anything, the brilliant discussion of
Some years ago, at the old Irving Place Theatre,
he went, he oniy met Neus who
Jews, or the type who were prou
these highly sensitive characters, who embrace all man¬
Schnitzler’s Dr. Bernhardi’ was produced in German.
ened of people thinking they wer
ners of Jews—radical assimilatfonists, radical nationalists
This play grew out of an incident in the life of his
Thus again when he runs inte
Zienists non-Zicnists, cynics, idealists—gives under the
#uniuun irent emalset und proless0l