This study examines the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus and his responses to the Jewish Question and anti- Semitism. Through a comprehensive analysis of his major works, this project reveals Kraus\u27s underlying views on Jewish identity and his ideas for resolving the Jewish Question. Kraus attacked acculturated German-speaking Jews for failing to assimilate into society. In his mind, the bourgeois Jewish intellectuals had retreated into a transparent ghetto of aesthetic values, literary expression, and capitalist-materialism, represented by the Jewish press. For Kraus, anti-Semitism persisted because the Jews maintained their status as Jews, and therefore could not assimilate into Viennese society. His solution to this faulty assimilation was to renounce all ties to Judaism and adopt Viennese culture completely
