Share Your Singer – Connecting More Memories of Emil Singer
Aug 27, 2024 | JMW News
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New social media project – #DiscoverJewishCulture
Aug 20, 2024 | JMW News
We are pleased to present the innovative educational project #DiscoverJewishCulture. The aim of the new social media format is to make Jewish life, Jewish history and Jewish culture in Vienna and Austria accessible to a broader and, above all, younger target group. #DiscoverJewishCulture brings Jewish history to life onlineWith #DiscoverJewishCulture, the Jewish Museum Vienna expands […] | more
There be Dragons
Aug 1, 2024 | JMW News
Photographic work: Lisl PongerText: Daniela Pscheiden Unexplored areas on medieval maps were shown to be populated with dragons, leviathans, and sea monsters. European voyages of discovery soon changed this perception. In this installation, Europe is represented by the seafarer Christopher Columbus (c. 1451–1506) and a Frontex official peering out to sea. The former set out […] | more
In Memoriam Herta Griffel-Baitch (1933-2024)
Mar 5, 2024 | JMW News
The Jewish Museum Vienna mourns the passing of Herta Griffel-Baitch. She spent the early years of her life in Vienna’s Wohlmutstraße in the second district, yet memories of that time barely remained with her. However, she remembered one sentence from her mother until the end of her life: “It’s important that you are healthy, then […] | more
Captured – Echoes of absence: hostages family photos recreated
Feb 27, 2024 | JMW News
by Sharon Derhy / Natalie Neubauer The “Captured” initiative, advocating for the return of Israeli hostages, was launched bySharon Derhy, the daughter-in-law of Chaim Peri, who was abducted on October 7th byHamas from his home in Israel. The initiative emerged when Derhy’s husband, Lior, visited his father’s home in Kibbutz Nir-Oz and recalled a photo […] | more
October 7, 2023
Jan 25, 2024 | JMW News
Directly after the brutal attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, by the terrorist organization Hamas, the Ukrainian-Israeli artist Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi set out to portray the terrible events in pictures. | more
Obituary Alfred Stalzer (1953 – 2023)
Jan 4, 2024 | JMW News
The Jewish Museum Vienna and Wien Holding mourn the loss of their long-time associate, Dr. Alfred Stalzer, who died on December 14, 2023 at the age of seventy. | more
Expo Window No. 3: “Making Room for God.” The Day of Atonement
Dec 12, 2023 | JMW News
On the occasion of Yom Kippur, the expo window at the Dorotheergasse Museum explores the theme of reconciliation. | more
Solidarity against hatred and incitement
Nov 30, 2023 | JMW News
The Jewish Museum Vienna views with great concern the social developments triggered by the murderous attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023 and the kidnapping of 240 hostages that are taking place in Europe as well as in Austria: false reports and fake news, relativizations and the reversal of victim and perpetrator roles caused a […] | more
…don’t tell a false story…
Nov 23, 2023 | JMW News
Presented in November 2002 at the Jewish Museum Vienna, the exhibition One Night and One Day told of the events that occurred in Vienna from November 9, 1938 to November 10, 1938, using an impressively clear chronology printed on the walls of the exhibition area on the second floor. It was possible to read here […] | more