The year 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner, one of the most controversial characters of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. His essay Das Judenthum in der Musik (1850 and 1869), his operas, and many other statements established him as one of the most prominent anti-Semitic figures within the German-speaking bourgeoisie. At the same time, his musical creativity, the idea of the “Gesamtkunstwerk” [total work of art], and the cult of genius exerted an enormous influence both during his lifetime and thereafter.More
Every year on the so called Seder-evening Jews read the story of the liberation of the Jews from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt – the Haggadah shel Pesach. The Viennese artist Arik Brauer has created a new Haggadah, which is first on display at the Jewish Museum.More
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Museum Judenplatz 
