Why a 100-year-old film about a ‘City Without Jews’ seems disturbingly prescient today
Hans Karl Breslauer's 1924 film resonates in an environment of rising antisemitism and threatened mass deportations
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News With a roster of promising athletes, Vienna’s 115-year-old Hakoah Sports Club has found new life
Created as a space for Jewish athletes who were excluded from other clubs, Hakoah now welcomes members of all backgrounds, most of whom aren’t Jewish, and promotes inclusion and diversity
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Culture Why Jewish actress Hedy Lamarr might be the next big name in luxury shopping
The Lamarr department store honoring the Hollywood legend will open in Vienna in 2025
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Books Jewish refugees stranded in Hollywood, and 4 other books you need to know this month
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Yiddish World Leonard Cohen once denounced Yiddish. Why did he perform this Yiddish folk song?
It may have been a way to work out his Holocaust trauma.
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Fast Forward Vienna Jewish community on lockdown after attack near synagogue kills at least 4
Members of the Viennese Jewish community were told to stay indoors until at least midnight on Tuesday after a shooting spree that began near the Austrian capital’s main synagogue that killed a least four people and injured 15. The authorities said the gunman was a sympathizer of the Islamic State and had been slain by…
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Fast Forward Breaking: Fatality confirmed in shooting near Vienna synagogue
This is an evolving story and will be updated as we receive further news. A fatality has been confirmed in a shooting near Vienna, Austria’s Seitenstettengasse synagogue, the Jewish community’s main temple in the city. Vienna’s police force confirmed on Twitter that one person had been killed in the attack, and that the police had…
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Culture 60 Years After The Holocaust, A Viennese Son Returned Home
It was a sunny afternoon in March 2003. Birds were singing outside, and the first flowers had just started to blossom on our quiet street in Vienna. At that time, I lived in an old apartment built around the turn of the past century, with high windows and even higher ceilings. It was located in…
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