by Frank Tallis
Jews were accused of desecrating churches and of ritual murder. Jewish property was appropriated by the monarchy. The old synagogue-I imagine it must have been like the Old-New Synagogue in Prague-was burned to the ground and Jews were forcibly baptized. Those who refused were put to death in a great fire on the Erdberg. My father said something like, “The city authorities have not seen fit to remove this monument.” I am not sure that then I understood what he meant. But it stayed with me because I was aware of his sadness and anger. Although it has taken six hundred years, progress has been made. Today, Jews may be insulted and abused, but they will never be consigned to the flames again. We Viennese are far too civilized.
I have arranged to see Miss Lydgate on Tuesday. We are going to a lieder concert-Mathilde Leibnitz with Kronenberg at the keyboard. Gretchen am Spinnrade is on the program. There are three women in every man’s life. Wheels turn. Time passes. And she who is unattainable remains forever young, perfected by the inaccuracies of memory and unsatisfied desire.
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