All MESHUGGE? Jewish Wit and Humour
March, 20, 2013 to September, 8, 2013
Museum Dorotheergasse
Humor is an essential component of Jewish life. It reflects relations within the community and reactions to an often hostile environment. The Jewish Museum Vienna is showing the broad spectrum of Jewish humor from its roots in Eastern Europe to Ephraim Kishon in Israel and Billy Wilder, Mel Brooks, and Woody Allen in Hollywood, from the Yiddish tradition, in which Jewish wit is rooted, to cabaret in Vienna and Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s, and humor in exile and in the face of the Shoah. »more
Chaverim Chasak! Centennial of the Hashomer Hatzair Jewish Youth Movement
June, 12, 2013 to September, 29, 2013
Museum Dorotheergasse
This has been the motto of the Jewish youth movement Hashomer Hatzair (The Young Guards) throughout the hundred years of its existence. It was founded in Galicia in 1913 and even managed to survive the tragedy of the Shoah. The heroic role played by members of this movement in rebelling against the Nazi regime, culminating in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, has marked dozens of generations of shomrim [members] of Hashomer Hatzair in their search for a Jewish identity. »more
TATIANA LECOMTE צלם וצילום
May, 23 to October, 27, 2013
Museum Judenplatz
The French artist Tatiana Lecomte has for years been concerned with issues of visual memory. How can we come to terms with traumatic history through images? Lecomte explores how reproductions are suited to communicating memories. What photographs show and what they do not (cannot) show is the subject of her work: The “unrepresentable” quality inherent in every photographic representation.
For her exhibition at the Museum Judenplatz, the artist has reflected not only on the debate over the photographic image but also on the concept of the impossibility of imagining the Shoah. »more
