‘Fascinating . . . both encyclopedic and brilliantly researched and beyond question will remain, far longer than several other recent productions concerning turn-of-the-century Viennese Jewry, both interesting to general readers and useful to scholars . . . an important book.’ - William McCagg, American Historical Review ‘Parmi les plus récent ouvrages, signalons l’étude fondamentale de Robert S. Wistrich . . .’ - P. Ginewski, Diaspora ‘Monumental . . . hugely informative.’ - Norman Lebrecht, Jewish Chronicle ‘Wistrich combines such a wealth of information, such elegance of style, and such maturity of judgement, that one reads his book with considerable intellectual pleasure. His final section, on culture and identity . . . is so enjoyable that one regrets that Wistrich did not take the story down to 1938.’ - Frank Field, English Historical Review ‘Masterly’ - John Warren, Immigrants and Minorities ‘Masterly . . . He does indeed provide a detailed and multi-faceted picture, highlighting the diversity of the community and its concomitant tensions. It is a serious and detailed historical work . . . a book which has rightly been described by Professor Peter Pulzer as “the standard work for some time to come”.’ - Alastair Falk, Le’ela ‘The excellence of his book lies . . . in the high quality of scholarship, the sensitivity to nuance, the desire to map the entire Jewish response to the crisis of the empire in all its complexity.’ - {::}New York Review of Books