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The City Without Jews
Life and Death in Nazi Vienna
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The City Without Jews
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Narrado por:
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Helen Stern
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Douglas Smith
From an award-winning historian, the gripping, singular story of the destruction of Jewish Vienna as seen through the letters and diaries of an extraordinary woman who witnessed it all.
In 1922, Hugo Bettauer published the novel The City Without Jews, a satirical critique of Austrian antisemitism. Three years later he would be killed by an early follower of the Nazi Party. More than a decade later, in March 1938, the novel's terrifying vision of a Vienna emptied of Jews would begin to be realized. German troops poured into the glittering city, marking the beginning of seven years of unfathomable state-sanctioned violence against the Jewish population.
A work of great power and urgency, The City Without Jews: Life and Death in Nazi Vienna tells the dramatic story of these seven years as they have never been told before. Drawing on hundreds of sources, many of which have lain untouched for decades, the historian Douglas Smith captures with novelistic immediacy the intertwined lives of those who experienced this age of extremes. And of all these voices, one stands out: a middle-aged nurse named Mignon Langnas, a Jewish woman who would see all her friends and family, and her entire world, disappear. The only Jew who spent the entire seven years in Nazi Vienna and left behind such a detailed record of her life, Mignon, in her letters and diaries, shows herself to be a woman of exceptional strength, compassion, and dignity, seeking to make sense of the once-vibrant city that had now turned against her.
By turns heartbreakingly intimate and dazzlingly epic, The City Without Jews tells the story of the destruction of Jewish Vienna in previously untapped breadth and detail. Even more than a work of history, it is a reminder and a warning—of the consequences of forgetting a past whose legacy refuses to die.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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"This is a truly major work, both deeply moving and incredibly powerful. It is a masterpiece of research, structure and writing. Never before has anyone so brilliantly integrated the history of the Nazi onslaught on the Jews of Vienna–a more vicious explosion even than in Germany–with the intimate experience of their victims. It is an unforgettable story of greed, betrayal and hypocrisy, self-sacrifice, impossible moral choices and survivor guilt." –Antony Beevor
"In this harrowing account of the remorseless Nazi destruction of Vienna’s vibrant Jewish community, Douglas Smith once again demonstrates his impressive historical scope and meticulous scholarship. Channelled through the eyes of Jewish nurse Mignon Langnas—a key witness and survivor—this unflinching narrative is an important contribution to the canon of Holocaust history." —Helen Rappaport, New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters
"Painful, profound, prescient. Douglas Smith's The City Without Jews is a magisterial work but also an intimate one and all the more powerful for it.” —Sonia Purnell, author of Kingmaker and A Woman of No Importance
“In Douglas Smith’s extraordinary work, the city of Vienna becomes a character for which we feel and grieve. Superbly researched and written, this book unflinchingly and beautifully documents the fate of Viennese Jews during the Nazi years. It is moving, compelling and important reading. A tour-de-force.” —Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped
"The City Without Jews exposes the descent of one of the world's most beautiful cities into hell, through the lives of one family torn apart in the process. Moving gracefully between the grand and the intimate scale, this beautifully written book will change the way you see Vienna forever." —Rebecca Clifford, author of Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust
