In post-World War I Vienna, between fiction and reality, much of its population is desperate for unemployment, inflation and misery. Adalidians and acolytes of anti-Semitism have identified the culprits of this situation, and "Out the Jews!" Is the slogan that they chant in their propaganda to incite the resentment of the people. After winning the elections with an overwhelming majority, they will be able to change the Constitution in order to expel them all.
  The anti-Jewish law carries a demographic bleeding that is around one million people, but at the same time generates an atmosphere of euphoria in the city. However, the hangover will soon arrive with all its consequences ...
  The city without Jews, published for the first time in 1922 and with translations into several languages ​​at the time, is a ferocious satire of Central European anti-Semitism that would have been overcome by reality a few years later, when European cities were truly emptied of Jews and These ended up being assassinated in Nazi death camps. In spite of the forcefulness of his argument, it is full of seductive characters (a young and daring Jewish artist, a moderate aholic adviser -in German Hofrat- embodying the best of old Austria, a chancellor full of folds ...) and hilarious moments , Because humor and intelligence are two of the essential keys in the work of this author to be discovered: Hugo Bettauer, precisely murdered for writing novels like this one.