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“Johann Strauss” – Classified Top Secret

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

Black Jews, White Jews? On Skin Color and Prejudice

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

100% Jewish Museum Vienna – 50/50 Dorotheergasse & Judenplatz

Sunday, December 14th | Multiple locations, multiple addresses

We are delighted to offer tours in English featuring an overview of our exhibitions and collections at our two locations. Within a mere sixty minutes, you will experience a high dose of Viennese Jewish history and become acquainted with the most fascinating aspects of this vibrant heritage at the oldest Jewish museum in the world. Times […] | more

Everything Forgotten

Wednesday, January 28th - Sunday, September 6th | Museum Judenplatz, Judenplatz 8, A-1010 Vienna

The Hebrew words lishkoach (to forget) and koach (power or strength) sound similar. Even though they are not etymologically related, their similarity reminds us of the dual nature of forgetting. The exhibition Everything Forgotten looks at the power but also the powerlessness of forgetting from a cultural history perspective and asks whether forgetting is just […] | more