Mapping Urban Cafés and Modern Jewish Culture

Arkaden Café

"...In the years before and during World War I, it was Café Arkaden (or Arcaden)—located on the Reichsratsstrasse, near the University of Vienna—that emerged as the most important site for east European Jewish writers and intellectuals in the city... Yiddish and Hebrew writers, journalists and political activists portrayed Café Arkaden as the meeting place of “students, writers, journalists, publishers, artists and bohemians from Austria and from all around the world,” but they especially emphasized that it was a place in which Jewish migrants from Galicia, Poland and Russia felt at home.93 " (114)

This page has paths:

This page has tags:

Contents of this tag: