Welcome to Part Two of The City without Jews, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time. We thank you for all your kind comments about this choice for our seventy-eighth yarn. In tonight's episode of Hugo Bettauer's tale, the expulsion of Austrian Jews is prompting some desperate measures:
A talk in a niche beside a window of the Café Wögerer, opposite the Stock Exchange, between Herr Strauss, proprietor of a banking house, and his nephew, Siegfried Steiner, a medical student. Similar conversations were taking place at every table; and on this day, far from being boisterous, they were carried on almost inaudibly, with much gesturing.
The young man was shaking his uncle's hand.
"I thank you, dear Uncle, for promising to take me to London with you. That's a great consolation for me, for, between ourselves—Jerusalem—never! Not for me! Nothing but Jews—I can't imagine it!"
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