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Madensky Square - pp 161

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At the end of September there is always an Operetta Night in the Stadtpark Kursalon. Singers come from the Volksoper; they have electric lights now, strung between the trees, and after supper (which is taken out of doors if the weather is fine) there is dancing to an orchestra which plays on the bandstand from which Strauss himself so often conducted with his fiddle.
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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 Carol Herselle Krinsky

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Sie lächelte und war froh. Er küßte ihr die Hand, sie wandelten im Stadtpark hin und her, Arm in Arm, standen am Teich, sahen den Kindern zu, die die Schwäne futterten, Kasimir erzählte von einem Pariser Park und von einem Teich, darin er eines Abends herumgerudert war und im Kahn, im Schatten eines künstlichen Felsens, übernachtet hatte. »Wohl nicht allein?« meinte sie. Er legte die Hand beteuernd auf sein Herz. »Ich weiß nicht mehr. Vergangene Dinge.« – Therese wollte von Paris und Rom und all den fernen Städten nichts mehr hören. Wenn er sich dahin sehne, so solle er doch lieber gleich wieder davonreisen. Er drückte ihren Arm fest an den seinen und lud sie ein, auf der Terrasse des Kursalons mit ihm eine Jause zu nehmen. An einem kleinen Tischchen ließen sie sich nieder, und Therese bekam plötzlich eine lächerliche Angst, daß man sie hier mit Kasimir sehen und darüber »ihrer Herrschaft« berichten könnte.
pp 93 from Therese. Chronik eines Frauenlebens by Arthur - Schnitzler