The Viennese caf? was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural, and political world of fin-de-si?cle Vienna. Just as the caf? served as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations between different disciplines focusing on Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century. Contributions are drawn from the fields of social and cultural history, literary studies, Jewish studies and art, and architectural and design history. A fresh perspective is also provided by a selection of comparative articles exploring coffeehouse culture elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Charlotte Ashby
Chapter 1.The Caf?s of Vienna: Space and Sociability
Charlotte Ashby
Chapter 2.Time and Space in the Caf? Griensteidl and the Caf? Central
Gilbert Carr
Chapter 3.The Jew Belongs in the Coffeehouse: Jews, Central Europe and Modernity
Steven Beller
Chapter 4.Coffeehouse Orientalism
Tag Gronberg
Chapter 5.Between The House of Study and the Kaffeehaus: The Central European Caf? as a Site for Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism
Shachar Pinsker
Chapter 6.Michaliks caf? in Krak?w: Caf? and Caricature as Media of Modernity
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius
Chapter 7.?The Coffeehouse in Zagreb at the turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Similarities and Differences with the Viennese Coffeehouse
Ines lÓf
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