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God, who was so unenthusiastic about 167 Augustiner Strasse, has approved entirely of 14a, The Graben, which Herr Huber is turning into a temple of charcuterie.
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At the beginning of this century, Vienna was home to a Jewish population of about 200,000 including unusually large concentrations of Turkish, Galician, Balkan, and Hungarian Jews. Synagogues proliferated to accommodate regional groups, graduation of orthodoxy, and craftsmen in special industries who formend their own congregations. The stylistic range in Viennese synagogues encompassed neoclassicsm (Seitenstettengasse), Moorish (Tempelgasse), a free mixture of massive art nouveau with Romanesque and Gothic detail (Pazmanitengasse), and timid modernistic (Hitzing-Eintelbergergasse). Of all these synagogues, numbering about sixty during the mid- 1930s, only one survived the second World War. That was the oldest, the „Tempel“in the Seitenstettengasse in central Vienna. It took a long time for the Jews to increase sufficiently in number and status to commission this building. There had been Jews in Vienna since the late twelfth century; the first synagogue, in St. Stephen´s parish, was mentioned in a document of 1204. Later thirteenth-century documents refer to this or other synagogues, and documents of 1406 and 14220 refer to the burning of synagogues. The document of 1420 describes the synagogue on the Judenplatz as having a men´s prayer hall, a women´s section linked to the men´s by a window, movable seats, and an area where oil was stored. In 1421 came the expulsion or burning of the few Jews who had not died during the program of the previous year.
pp 186 from Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning by
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Bleibt noch Dr. Becker. Da bekomm' ich das Geld ohne weiteres. Das sind vornehme und feine Leute, da brauch' ich nur ein Wort zu sagen, nur eine Andeutung zu machen, und ich hab' das Geld. Freilich, wenn ich sag', daß ich jetzt vierzehn Tage ausbleiben werde, das wird ihnen nicht recht sein. Der Junge steht miserabel in Geographie und Physik. Da muß ich einen zwingenden Grund für mein Ausbleiben angeben, einen Grund, der den Leuten sofort einleuchtet. Nun, es wird mir schon einer einfallen, ich hab' ja noch fünf Minuten zu gehen. Dr. Becker wohnte am Kohlmarkt im vierten Stock eines neuen Hauses. Neben dem Haustor über der Glocke hing seine Tafel: Dozent Dr. R. Becker, ordiniert von zwei bis fünf.
pp 147-148 from Zwischen neun und neun by
