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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…
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…
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…
2018 is Austria’s Gedenkjahr, 12 months of landmarks, anniversaries and commemorations that reach their zenith and nadir in November. The 11th and 12th of this month mark 100 years since the abdication of the last emperor, Charles I, and the declaration of the Republic of German-Austria. November 9 and 10, however, will be 80 years…
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