ABSTRACT
The Cafés of Vienna during the first three decades of the twentieth century highlight many of the elements of the Café as a third space, as well as the tangled relationship between Café culture, modernism, and Jewishness. At the turn of the century, Vienna became one of the most important centers of modernism in literature, philosophy, art, and architecture. And at the same time that the Viennese Café was in its heyday as a commercial and cultural institution. The world of the Viennese Café has usually been described in writings of acculturated Jews such as Schnitzler, Roth, Torberg, Polgar, and Zweig, who are well-known in Austrian and international modernism. The Viennese Kaffeehaus proved to be the place that brought these immigrant writers, artists, and intellectuals together and opened new paths for them. Indeed, Vienna fostered close collaboration between Hebrew and Yiddish writers at a time when these two literatures were gradually separating from each other for ideological and political reasons.
