Fifteen Rabbits

Fifteen Rabbits (German: Fünfzehn Hasen: Schicksale in Wald und Feld) is a 1929 survival and adventure novel by the Austrian writer Felix Salten.

Although Fifteen Rabbits is a story of a collective, the young Hops is the main character, with his beloved Plana.

[1] Fifteen Rabbits was first published in German language, serialized in Neue Freie Presse newspaper from August 20 till October 10, 1929, and later that year by the Zsolnay company in Vienna as a book.

[3] As the other forest novels by Salten, also Fifteen Rabbits can be interpreted as an allegorical depiction of the diaspora of the Jewish people (interpretatio judaica).

This was noted, among others, by Salten's archenemy Karl Kraus who mocked the "rabbits with the Jewish manner of speaking" (German: jüdelnde Hasen).