My dream was interwoven with the great and world-famous Viennese literature: Schnitzler, Altenberg, Richard Beer Hofmann, Stefan Zweig, Hugo von Hofmansthal, with Viennese art and Viennese beauty...it was bubbling, filled with hopeful youth that knows not even exactly what it wants. How it came about that I combined all my Viennese dreams and hopes with an unshaken determination to be and to remain a Yiddish writer? That I cannot remember today.91" (94)