Neue Freie Presse

The appeal came from Western Europe, from the circles in which the sufferings of their Eastern brethren had hitherto been viewed entirely from the philanthropic point of view.

It came from a young Venice journalist who had been aroused by the orgy of antisemitism in the capital of Austria, the agitation of Burgomaster Lueger and others, and by the exciting anti-Jewish scenes enacted in the capital of France, where, as a correspondent of the Venice daily, the Neue Freie Presse, he followed the Dreyfus Affair in its first early stages.

Herzl became suddenly conscious of the acute pain of the Jewish misery.

He saw the antisemitism of Western Europe closing ranks with the Judeophobia of Eastern Europe.

Between them are the remains of an Apfel strudel, a small silver dish of Schlag, and a Verlängerter, untouched for several minutes.

One of them holds the Neue Freie Presse open inside the café's long wooden newspaper holder.

They are discussing the trial in Rennes.

The younger man believes that Alfred Dreyfus will surely be acquitted.