And while we don’t have actual addresses to show you on this tour, we do have stories that took place all along Taborstrasse—and the surrounding streets-- so let’s start with some background as we walk along the street.You are in the city that began the 20th century as the grand capital of an enormous empire, when more than 175,000 Jews lived here.Those were the years, as the world raced toward modern times, Mahler and Schoenberg composed, Sigmund Freud began psycho-analysis, Arthur Schnitzler wrote his novels, and Ludwig Wittgenstein became famous for philosophy (if you can figure him out, give me a call)—but these really are the very names that define western culture today, and all were Jewish.But the Austro Hungarian empire died at the close of the First World War and Austria became a shrunken republic in 1918 that no one particularly wanted.20 years later, Austria was subsumed into Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich and Vienna’s Jews would go running for their lives.65,000 did not get away. They were sent off to their deaths. Of those Jews who fled in time or survived, very few wanted to return here. Nevertheless, there’s a small and very lively Jewish community in Vienna today -- but our task is to pay tribute to that last generation of Jews who were born and grew up here before the Holocaust. Except for my brief introductions, you’re going to hear from three women Tanja Eckstein interviewed for us in 2005 and 2006, and we’ll hear from two writers who were here when history happened.