World War I with the social changes that it produced is regarded as a turning point of global historical significance. The demise of the old order also had grave consequences for the Jews of Austria-Hungary. They were the most loyal subjects of Emperor Franz Joseph I, who guaranteed them legal security and detested anti-Semitism.More
The Jewish Museum Vienna portrays the musician, who died at a young age in 2011, as hardly anyone knows her. Deeply rooted in the Jewish history of her family that immigrated to England from Belarus in the 1890s. Alex Winehouse, the brother of the musician, and his wife Riva made a very special view on Amy Winehouse’s life possible through many objects and personal memorabilia – in close collaboration with the Jewish Museum London.More
Before the reform movement women had no active function in the religious service, but they have always played an important role in traditional communities as donors of textiles for the synagogue.More
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