The Unknown at the Jewish Museum

Source: ORF Wien

http://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2534116

Claire Fontaine The weeping wall inside us all ©Yanai Toister, Courtesy EP Privatstiftung. Sopurce: http://www.jmw.at/foreigners-everywhere

Beginning with May 24, 2012, the Jewish Museum Vienna will show photographs and installations from the collection of Eduard Pomeranz. The exhibit, “Foreigners everywhere” aims to investigate the influence of Jewish collectors on the Viennese art scene.

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Jewish Community opened ist doors

Source: Der Standard
http://derstandard.at/1336697359808/Wien-Israelitische-Kultusgemeinde-oeffnete-die-Tueren


May, 20, 2012

Jewish Community invited all interested parties for the first time to “show that we do not live secluded”

Vienna – The Jewish Community of Vienna held an open house day for the first time in its history. “I would like to position the Jewish community as a part of Austrian society”, explained Oskar Deutsch, President of the Community. People should be familiarized with Jewish holidays and traditions. And “we also want to show that we do not live secluded”, said Miriam Tenner of the organizing committee.

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"Jewish Geniuses" - Warhol's Jews

A new exhibit at the Jewish Museum Vienna explores a series of portraits of important Jewish personalities of the twentieth century created by Andy Warhol in 1980.

Please visit the Museum's website for more information.

Oskar Deutsch Meets President Fischer

Photo: Press & Information Service of the Austrian Federal PresidentAustrian Federal President Dr. Heinz Fischer (right) received Oskar Deutsch, newly elected president of the Austrian Jewish Community, for an inaugural visit on March 13, 2012.

Faymann promises financial coverage of the Memorial Service.

Wiener Zeitung, March 12, 2012. Translation.

German original: http://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/panorama/chronik/443014_Faymann-sagt-finanzielle-Absicherung-fuer-Gedenkdienste-zu.html

Vienna. “The victims are the only ones who have the right to forget”. With these words Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann began his speech on the occasion of the general assembly of the Austrian Friends of Yad Vashem.  Barbara Prammer, President of the National Council, and Honorary President of the Austrian Friends of Yad Vashem since 2010, had invited them to the Austrian Parliament. Keynote speakers besides Mr. Faymann included Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger, as well as Avner Shalef, who travelled from Jerusalem to Vienna and has served as the chairman of Yad Vashem in Israel for 19 years.

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