Where Have All The Flowers Gone…
Thursday, May 8th - Sunday, January 18th | Museum Judenplatz, Judenplatz 8, A-1010 Vienna
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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
What’s your name? By any other name… Exploring Arabic Calligraphy: An Introductory Workshop with Artist Lenore Mizrachi-Cohen
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
Eva Illouz “Der 8. Oktober”
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