The long-forgotten Jewish author Else Feldmann gives an inexorable insight into social upheavals in Vienna during the interwar period. With energy and clarity she shows the causes and consequences of which she knows only too well from her own, often painful experience. "The ways of human distress are unsearchable deep and entangled in a thousand secrets", writes Else Feldmann in one of her first features During the interwar period she was to write numerous of these for various newspapers before she fell victim to National Socialist extermination. As a journalist and writer in the labor movement, Else Feldmann succeeded in emancipating herself from her origins in the Jewish ghetto and comparatively early on In her work, Else Feldmann gives an insight into the reality of life for people on the fringes of society: prostitutes, juveniles who have committed criminal offenses, the unemployed, servants, young mothers as well as men and women from the proletariat.Elisabeth Debazi taps the to date received he writings of an unjustly forgotten Jewish author and classifies them for the first time in literary studies.