On November 9, 2024, a special gala dinner took place at Christie’s New York. This event launched the beginning of the Jewish Museum Vienna’s 130th anniversary year, which will be celebrated in 2025 with numerous exhibitions, events, and other special projects. On this day in 1938, the Nazi terror was unleashed during the November Pogroms. […] | more
Accompanying and complementing our current exhibition The Third Generation. The Holocaust in Family Memory, we conducted interviews with relatives of the Third (and sometimes also the Fourth) Generation and asked them about their quite personal dealing with the story of their grandparents, as well as about the perception of their generation. You can read these […] | more
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Dear Dr. Feldner-Busztin, Dear Helga, Since I now know that it can help the living to write letters to the deceased, the obituary for you will now take this form. We did not really know each other, but since you are represented several times in the Jewish Museum Vienna, this seems a viable way to […] | more
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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
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
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
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
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