Vienna, the imperial Habsburg capital, had recently elected an anti-Semitic conservative mayor, Karl Lueger, who had once proclaimed: "I myself decide who is a Jew and who isn't."
Viena, a capital do imperio dos Habsburgo, elixira recentemente un alcalde conservador antisemita, Karl Lueger, que unha vez proclamara: "Eu mesmo decido quen é xudeu e quen non o é".