The Viennese cafe was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural and political world of fin-de-siecle Vienna.

List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction Charlotte Ashby Chapter 1. The Cafés of Vienna: Space and Sociability Charlotte Ashby Chapter 2. Time and Space in the Café Griensteidl and the Café Central Gilbert Carr Chapter 3.The Jew Belongs in the Coffeehouse’: Jews, Central Europe and Modernity Steven Beller Chapter 4. Coffeehouse Orientalism Tag Gronberg Chapter 5. Between ‘The House of Study’ and the Kaffeehaus: The Central European Café as a Site for Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism Shachar Pinsker Chapter 6. Michalik’s café in Kraków: Café and Caricature as Media of Modernity Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius Chapter 7.  The Coffeehouse in Zagreb at the turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Similarities and Differences with the Viennese Coffeehouse Ines Sabotic Chapter 8. Adolf Loos’s Kärntner Bar: Reception, Reinvention, Reproduction Mary Costello Chapter 9. Graphic and Interior Design in the Viennese coffeehouse around 1900: Experience and Identity Jeremy Aynsley Chapter 10. The Cliché of the Viennese Café as an Extended Living-room: Formal Parallels and Differences Richard Kurdiovsky Chapter 11. Coffeehouses and Tea Parties: Conversational Spaces as a Stimulus to Creativity in Sigmund Freud’s Vienna and Virginia Woolf’s London Edward Timms Bibliography Index