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'How is the psychoanalysis?' I asked her. 'Does it help?'
Leah has been getting so depressed and having such bad dreams, that her husband has sent her to Professor Freud in the Berggasse for treatment.
'Well, it doesn't help my depression - but then I know why I'm depressed. It's because I don't want to go to the Promised Land and dig holes for orange trees. But I must say it's simply marvellous for the feet! You know how my ankles kept swelling after Benjamin, and an hour on the couch is simply bliss!'
Leah has been getting so depressed and having such bad dreams, that her husband has sent her to Professor Freud in the Berggasse for treatment.
'Well, it doesn't help my depression - but then I know why I'm depressed. It's because I don't want to go to the Promised Land and dig holes for orange trees. But I must say it's simply marvellous for the feet! You know how my ankles kept swelling after Benjamin, and an hour on the couch is simply bliss!'
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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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Kriminalgruppeninspektor Leopold W., 38, wurde nach einem Trinkgelage gegen 1.30 Uhr völlig unbekleidet vor der Servitenkirche im 9. Wiener Gemeindebezirk aufgegriffen. Schlafende Anrainer waren von W. obszön beschimpft und lautstark zum gemeinsamen Selbstmord aufgefordert worden.
pp 18 from Der Fall des Lemming by