Vienna society was stricter, particularly in the case of Jewish doctors. The social and racial arrogance of the European ruling classes, which contributed so largely to the revolutionary upheavals of the following generation — above all to the anticolonialist revolution after World War II — flourished in its most anachronistic, if not in its most extreme form in the cultured, cosmopolitan capital of the Habsburgs before 1914.
Cursed as God told Abraham
