Images from Jewish life in Döbling Vienna

Name: Images from Jewish life in Döbling Vienna
Brand: Brill Österreich Ges.m.b.H.
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Tracing history through memory

Written by Sandra Goldstein

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Döbling, Vienna’s 19th district, was home to notorious Jewish families of entrepreneurs, scientists, intellectuals, and artists. This book reconstructs the story of this upper bourgeois milieu, who for decades dominated the city’s political, cultural, and economic life. Drawing on previously unexamined personal sources, it traces their rise to prominence, their destruction under National Socialism, and their new beginning in America. It evokes a world of distinction and splendor abruptly shattered. Most of them survived thanks to their wealth and international networks, yet their stories remained largely untold due to feelings of guilt and doubts about their own victimhood. This book restores their voices, integrating personal memories and historical analysis into the Holocaust narrative.

Sandra Goldstein, former Professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), Lecturer at the University of Vienna, and Researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History (IKT) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Currently translating her most accomplished book “Arthur Koestler: A Wonderer on Earth” into Hebrew for Resling Publishing House, Tel Aviv. The work is based exclusively on Koestler’s private archive at the University of Edinburgh.

ISBN-13: 9783205225102
Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Wien
Imprint: Brill Österreich Ges.m.b.H.
Publication date: 5 October 2026
Format: Hardback
Language: English