Ah so!

An uncomfortable reminder of the prevalent anti-Semitism in Vienna at the fin-de-siècle.
Stranger: “For heaven’s sake, does an influenza prevail there or some other kind of epidemic?”
Kikeriki: “Not a trace! This is only coming from our Jewish-Liberals, who are “sniffing” in irritation because they’re never in the parliamentary majority!”
(Kikeriki, Vienna, 1897)

Austrian flu cartoon

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