“Vienna, where Freud lived from his fourth to his 82nd year ... was the most anti-Semitic of all the great cities of the world,” says Sperber. (Czarist Russia was the most anti-Semitic country, however. “The American nation owes it to itself to confess its horror when it hears of massacres as terrible as those of Kishinev,” said President Theodore Roosevelt after a particularly atrocious pogrom in southern Russia.)
