Introduction
  
Vienna:
A City at the
Crossroads
  
The Jewish
Community
  
The Tragedy
of Success:
Jews in the Public Life
  
The Rise of
the Women's
Movement
  
Innovations in the Arts,
Sciences and
Literature
  

Nazi Era:
Starting Over
 

Vienna –  A City at the Crossroads
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Architecture of Change..
University Opening
Vienna’s Stadtbahn

Postcard honoring the opening of Vienna’s Stadtbahn [Metropolitan Railway System], 1898

The Burgring
Artist unknown
The Burgring
Photo, 1882

The imposing University Palace on Vienna's splendid new Ring, was built as a monument to liberal learning, 1884,  in the immediate vicinity of the parliament, the City Hall, the Burgtheater.


Artist Unknown
Opening of Vienna University
Engraving, 1884