maxon RD-2A $59.95 Rog. $79.95 Superhetrcdyne X a K Rader Detector with Flashing Visual "Aloft" Display, City/Highway Switch, On/Off Volume Control, Anti-Falsing Circuit plus much more! b re RD-3110 $129.95 Rog. $159.95 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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