Charlotte Ashby is a Lecturer in Art and Design History at Birkbeck, University of London and the Courtauld Institute of Art. She was Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Viennese Cafe Project at the Royal College of Art. In 2008 she curated the exhibition Vienna Cafe 1900 at the Royal College of Art and co-convened the conference The Viennese Cafe as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange. Tag Gronberg is Tutor for Postgraduate Research in the Department of History of Art and Screen Media at Birkbeck, University of London. She was a member of the curatorial team for the exhibition Modernism: Designing a New World 1914 - 1939 (2006). She is the author of Vienna - City of Modernity, 1890 - 1914 (Peter Lang 2007) and Designs on Modernity: Exhibiting the City in 1920s Paris (Manchester University Press 1998). Simon Shaw-Miller is Professor in the History of Art at the University of Bristol. He is an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London. His publications include: Visible Deeds of Music: Music and Art from Wagner to Cage (Yale University Press 2002), Samuel Palmer Revisited (co-edited, Ashgate 2010) and Eye hEar: The Visual in Music (Ashgate 2013). He won the Prix Ars Electronica Media.Arts: Research Award in 2009.

List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction Charlotte Ashby Chapter 1. The Cafes of Vienna: Space and Sociability Charlotte Ashby Chapter 2. Time and Space in the Cafe Griensteidl and the Cafe Central Gilbert Carr Chapter 3.The Jew Belongs in the Coffeehouse': Jews, Central Europe and Modernity Steven Beller Chapter 4. Coffeehouse Orientalism Tag Gronberg Chapter 5. Between 'The House of Study' and the Kaffeehaus: The Central European Cafe as a Site for Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism Shachar Pinsker Chapter 6. Michalik's cafe in Krakow: Cafe and Caricature as Media of Modernity Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius Chapter 7. The Coffeehouse in Zagreb at the turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Similarities and Differences with the Viennese Coffeehouse Ines Sabotic Chapter 8. Adolf Loos's Karntner Bar: Reception, Reinvention, Reproduction Mary Costello Chapter 9. Graphic and Interior Design in the Viennese coffeehouse around 1900: Experience and Identity Jeremy Aynsley Chapter 10. The Cliche of the Viennese Cafe as an Extended Living-room: Formal Parallels and Differences Richard Kurdiovsky Chapter 11. Coffeehouses and Tea Parties: Conversational Spaces as a Stimulus to Creativity in Sigmund Freud's Vienna and Virginia Woolf's London Edward Timms Bibliography Index

• List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction Charlotte Ashby Chapter 1. The Cafes of Vienna: Space and Sociability Charlotte Ashby Chapter 2. Time and Space in the Cafe Griensteidl and the Cafe Central Gilbert Carr Chapter 3.The Jew Belongs in the Coffeehouse': Jews, Central Europe and Modernity Steven Beller Chapter 4. Coffeehouse Orientalism Tag Gronberg Chapter 5. Between 'The House of Study' and the Kaffeehaus: The Central European Cafe as a Site for Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism Shachar Pinsker Chapter 6. Michalik's cafe in Krakow: Cafe and Caricature as Media of Modernity Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius Chapter 7. The Coffeehouse in Zagreb at the turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Similarities and Differences with the Viennese Coffeehouse Ines Sabotic Chapter 8. Adolf Loos's Karntner Bar: Reception, Reinvention, Reproduction Mary Costello Chapter 9. Graphic and Interior Design in the Viennese coffeehouse around 1900: Experience and Identity Jeremy Aynsley Chapter 10. The Cliche of the Viennese Cafe as an Extended Living-room: Formal Parallels and Differences Richard Kurdiovsky Chapter 11. Coffeehouses and Tea Parties: Conversational Spaces as a Stimulus to Creativity in Sigmund Freud's Vienna and Virginia Woolf's London Edward Timms Bibliography Index