During the 1980s , especially after the political scandal around former UN secretary and eventually Austrian federal president Kurt Waldheim , a new and more distinctive Jewish literature formed . Robert Schindel published the novel '' Gebirtig '' , which deals with a contemporary Jewish society within Austria and the difficult memories of the Shoah . Robert Menasse is known for his novels and especially for his essays on Austria . Another author who works with Jewish topics , is Doron Rabinovici
Shoah
The Holocaust
Austrian literature