Max Teichmann, a sometime patron of the CafŽ Scheherazade in Melbourne, looks at Arnold Zable’s new book about the establishment which reveals the burden of memories of Eastern Europe 50 years ago.This a story about Memory; revolving around a cafŽ, the Scheherazade, in Acland Street, St Kilda; its owners and the people, mainly Jewish, who come there, sometimes daily, to eat, to drink coffee, read newspapers, watch the other diners, examine passers by in the street outside, play cards, and, in …
