{"product_id":"the-city-without-jews-life-and-death-in-nazi-vienna-douglas-smith-hardcover","title":"The City Without Jews: Life and Death in Nazi Vienna -- Douglas Smith, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom an award-winning historian, the gripping, singular story of the destruction of Jewish Vienna as seen through the letters and diaries of an extraordinary woman who witnessed it all. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1922, Hugo Bettauer published the novel \u003ci\u003eThe City Without Jews\u003c\/i\u003e, a satirical critique of Austrian antisemitism. Three years later he would be killed by an early follower of the Nazi Party. More than a decade later, in March 1938, the novel's terrifying vision of a Vienna emptied of Jews would begin to be realized. German troops poured into the glittering city, marking the beginning of seven years of unfathomable state-sanctioned violence against the Jewish population. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA work of great power and urgency, \u003ci\u003eThe City Without Jews: Life and Death in Nazi Vienna\u003c\/i\u003e tells the dramatic story of these seven years as they have never been told before. Drawing on hundreds of sources, many of which have lain untouched for decades, the historian Douglas Smith captures with novelistic immediacy the intertwined lives of those who experienced this age of extremes. And of all these voices, one stands out: a middle-aged nurse named Mignon Langnas, a Jewish woman who would see all her friends and family, and her entire world, disappear. The only Jew who spent the entire seven years in Nazi Vienna and left behind such a detailed record of her life, Mignon, in her letters and diaries, shows herself to be a woman of exceptional strength, compassion, and dignity, seeking to make sense of the once-vibrant city that had now turned against her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy turns heartbreakingly intimate and dazzlingly epic, \u003ci\u003eThe City Without Jews\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the destruction of Jewish Vienna in previously untapped breadth and detail. Even more than a work of history, it is a reminder and a warning--of the consequences of forgetting a past whose legacy refuses to die.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.33w x 1.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374606558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2026 pg. 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning historian and translator and the author of \u003ci\u003eRasputin and Former People\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a bestseller in the UK. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003eand has appeared in documentaries by the BBC, National Geographic, and Netflix. Before becoming a historian, he worked for the US State Department in the Soviet Union and as a Russian affairs analyst for Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty. He lives with his family in Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Douglas Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67455044649188,"sku":"9780374606558","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780374606558.jpg?v=1791187665","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/the-city-without-jews-life-and-death-in-nazi-vienna-douglas-smith-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}