Sunday, November 1st - Saturday, December 31st | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
“Our City!” starts with the years from 1945 to the present on the ground floor. It describes the development, in spite of the unhelpfulness of Austrian post-war politicians, of an almost completely destroyed Jewish community to its present-day modest but highly dynamic presence. It is a story of immigration: first from Eastern and Central Europe, […] | more
Thursday, May 8th - Sunday, January 18th | Museum Judenplatz, Judenplatz 8, A-1010 Vienna
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Wednesday, October 1st - Friday, January 16th | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
Frequently broadcasted over radio stations as examples of “German music,” the Blue Danube Waltz and the Radetzky March remained popular melodies during the Nazi era. While it was already uncomfortable for the regime that many of the librettists of Strauss’s operettas were Jewish, the revelation of the Waltz King’s partial Jewish ancestry would have been […] | more
Wednesday, October 22nd - Sunday, April 26th | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
What skin colors do Jews have – and which are ascribed to them? How do they position themselves? The exhibition Black Jews, White Jews? explores these questions and shows historical and contemporary examples of external and self-perception. It examines the topic of Jewish identity in the charged relationship between self-definition, antisemitism, and racism. For centuries, […] | more
Wednesday, October 22nd | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
Jewish Syrian-American artist Lenore Cohen explores the disappearance of Arabic-Jewish first names and their communities in Arabic countries. Her calligraphies of traditional Arabic names transform into flowers in dark and lighter shades, symbolizing the fading of these names – a process in which people themselves participate by abandoning them. The work addresses identity, the appreciation […] | more
Saturday, November 15th | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
On 7 October 2023, the radical Islamic terrorist militia Hamas carried out devastating attacks in Israel. But the next day, public opinion was not dominated by sympathy for the victims. Instead, the attacks were legitimised as acts of resistance in progressive circles from Berlin to Paris to New York, and in some cases even cheered. […] | more
