Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The cafes of Vienna: space and sociability
  • Time and space in the Cafes Griensteidl and the Cafes Central
  • 'The Jew belongs in the coffeehouse': Jews, Central Europe and modernity
  • Coffeehouse orientalism
  • Between 'the house of study' and the Kaffeehaus: the Central European cafes as a site for Hebrew and Yiddish modernism
  • Michalik's cafes in Krakow: cafes and caricature as media of modernity
  • The coffeehouse in Zagreb at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: similarities and differences with the Viennese coffeehouse
  • Adolf Loos's Karntner Bar: reception, reinvention, reproduction
  • Graphic and interior design in the Viennese coffeehouse around 1900: experience and identity
  • The cliche of the Viennese cafes as an extended living-room: formal
  • parallels and differences
  • Coffeehouses and tea parties: conversational spaces as a stimulus to creativity in Sigmund Freud's Vienna and Virginia Woolf's London