This collection of essays and translations reflects the Viennese-born author-translator's
Austrian-Jewish heritage as well as representing his broad involvement as a cultural mediator
between his native and adopted countries. The essays - on Herzl Zweig Kraus Kafka Werfel
Waldinger Csokor Trakl and the winegarden songs of Vienna - highlight the great Jewish
contribution to Austrian culture and they are supplemented and illuminated by the short prose
of Zweig Herzl Beer-Hofmann Polgar Buber and others.
