“I wear my wig for myself. My husband doesn’t care. As far as he’s concerned, I could go about in a bikini.” Anja Salomonowitz’s film looks at the various questions regarding Jewish wigs. After marriage, Orthodox Jewish women cover their hair in public, usually with a headscarf or tichel, or with a wig or […] | more
After the Anschluss on March 12, 1938, Vienna became a model city for the systematic expulsion of Jews. In a very short time, the third-largest Jewish community in Europe was wiped out through emigration, deportation, and murder. For those who managed to flee abroad, this meant the loss of their bourgeois existence, their possessions, and […] | more
The exhibition traces the emergence of the Oriental studies in the nineteenth century and arrives at a surprising insight: the development of Islamic studies, Arabic studies, and Orientalism was closely intertwined with the Science of Judaism, as well as with movements of emancipation and reform. Many of its key protagonists were Viennese Jews—making “Die Morgenländer” […] | more