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once again?) the Talmudic
student, the coffeehouse Jew,
the circumciser (mohel), and
the Jewish banker. I lived
with them all in Vienna this
past year. And we have all at
times even forgotten the
trembling and felt complete-
ly comfortable.
And the others: where are
the others in this city? There
are 1.5 million non-Jews for
7,000 Jews. It is difficult to
speak at all in this connection
of a minority or a ghetto. It
has been explained to me for
a year that there are those
others who seek to end my
life, who live in the past and
— incapable of acknowledg-
ing their own complicity —
minimize the murder of that
time, or at least do not want
to talk about it.
But even here my ex-
perience of this city is more
differentiated and many
faceted, although full of con-
tradictions: as if friend and
foe were to appear together,
A Jewish college
preparatory school
— where is there
anything like that
in Germany?
perhaps by agreement? A fed-
eral chancellor in the midst of
last year's election campaign
goes into a synagogue at Yom
Kippur. The party chief of the
Austrian People's Party in
Vienna speaks of a vision, of
an Austria that knows what
it has done, what it has de-
stroyed of itself, what wrong
it has committed.
I rejoice at an administra-
tion that lets into the coun-
try, without papers, Jewish
children fleeing from Iran,
that supports them and gives
them teachers until they can
move on; at an interior mini-
ster who in personal conver-
sations asserts over and over
that it is his desire that Jews
again live here happily; at a
radio network where an edi-
torial staff manages to ex-
pose, on state-run radio, the
religious hierarchy in this
country whenever it delivers
a polemic against us Jews;
and at a city in which there is
a retired cardinal who speaks
openly of the complicity of
the Church in the extermina-
tion of the Jews in the Third
Reich.
Are they all accidents? Are
they attempts to make one
forget that modern anti-
Semitism has its origins in
this city?
The mitigating aspects of
these positive experiences do
not help me and many other
Jews here. We live in a city
where there are these two
sides. Often within one party
and one and the same church.
The question that presents
itself rather is why it is more
interesting to report about
the anxiety of others than
about the attempts to offset
or reduce those fears.
The anxiety of Jews in Vi-
enna has been portrayed in
the press in the context of a
political conflict or polemic.
It is not a matter of sym-
pathy; the reporters' own
perplexity was not the motive
to report about it. By the
dramatization of the victim's
role the perpetrator could be
"caught" in the journalistic
sense. They have even "used"
us Jews in order to mold an
impressive indictment. Yet,
through precise research they
would have been able to con-
trast those Jews in Vienna
who wantto close down their
business because of the mood
here with the twice as many
Jews who, if they had enough
money, would happily open a
business here. For every Jew
who wants to emigrate, I find
ten non-Jews who want to.
It fits the unimaginative-
ness of the Germans especial-
ly that, whenever it concerns
Jews, they get hung up on the
culprit-victim polemic. Jews
are either culprits in Israel or
victims of hatred. Very sel-
dom does one, as the person
written about, have the feel-
ing that the writer can really
imagine what kinds of
thoughts circulate in our
heads. Every report is il-
lustrated with a photograph
in which the editor surely
does not suspect his own re-
latives might be pictured. But
how often have I imagined
that in the picture with the
mountain of corpses from the
concentration camps, that is
supposed to duly shock the
reader, is perhaps my own
grandmother.
Anti-Semitism belongs to
the history of Vienna like the
Ferris wheel in Prater Park
and St. Stephen's cathedral.
But in opposition to stu-
pidity, and with the support
of liberal forces in Vienna, the
Jews achieved a cultural ze-
nith as never before. Perhaps
the rejection of Herzl as a
member by Alba, the stu-
dents' fraternity, provided the
impetus for his Zionism.
The question therefore
bothers me: where is the ex-
ception and where is the rule?
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