Tag: Vienna

“100 Misunderstandings About and Among Jews” and Many More About the European Jewish Museum

After taking over the direction of the Jewish Museum in Vienna (JMW) on July 1, Barbara Staudinger and her team of curators had less than...

By Liam Hoare

“I pictured Austria as Germany without Nazism.” A Childhood Fantasy.

“I arrived in France when I was only one year old and waited 37 years to become French. I knew nothing about my homeland Germany,...

By Ruben Honigmann

The View from Leopoldstadt

Is the revival of the Jewish community in Vienna a sign that a new form of diasporic Jewish existence is emerging? This is the stance...

By Julie E. Cooper & Dorit Geva