Oz Almog - Walls of Sound

Jewish Worlds of Music

10.02.2010 - 30.05.2010, Museum Judenplatz,

When listening to "God bless America", "The Christmas Song", "Edelweiss", "Katyusha", "The Blue Danube", "Hello, Dolly", "My Funny Valentine" or the US Marines'...
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“Have You Seen My Alps?”

A Jewish Love Story...

16.12.2009 - 05.04.2010, Palais Eskeles,

“The history of the Alps roughly and succinctly reflects the history of Europe, in other words our civilisation,” wrote Arnold Zweig in Haifa in 1940 in his posthumously published book Dialektik der Alpen. Fortschritt und Hemm...
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Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg

Travels into the Self and the World

04.11.2009 - 25.04.2010, Palais Eskeles,

Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg (1889-1942) was one of the pioneers of Expressionist painting in Austria after 1918. Led by modern artists like Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, many young Viennese painters saw this dynamic expressive style...
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"Cher ami..."

Marcel Proust im Spiegel seiner Korrespondenz

30.09.2009 - 22.11.2009, Palais Eskeles,

"Mon cher petit, es ist traurig, es zu sagen, aber wir sind fast die Einzigen [...], die noch einen literarischen Geschmack haben."
(Marcel Proust an Lucien Daudet)

Die Bibliotheca P...
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Teofila Reich-Ranicki

Pictures from the Warsaw Ghetto

16.09.2009 - 12.01.2010, Museum Judenplatz,

In Warsaw as well as in other Polish cities, the German occupation authorities had been establishing ghettos since 1940 into which they herded a city’s entire Jewish population. They surrounded the Warsaw Ghetto with a high...
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Tel Aviv

Hot City Cool

10.06.2009 - 28.10.2009, Palais Eskeles,

In 1909, almost 39 years before the establishment of the State of Israel, the foundation stone for the city of Tel Aviv was laid north of Jaffa, an ancient port that had existed for thousands of years. A jewel of modern urban plan...
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typical!

Clichés of Jews and Others

01.04.2009 - 11.10.2009, Palais Eskeles,

“typical! Clichés of Jews and Others” is an exhibition about seeing, perceiving, ordering and classifying images and objects relating to ourselves and to others. It shows objects, pictures, photographs and audiovisual items p...
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Being Shylock

An Experiment at the Yiddish Art Theatre New York 1947

18.03.2009 - 06.09.2009, Museum Judenplatz,

In 1947/48 a series of fascinating backstage and rehearsal photos were taken at the Yiddish Art Theater in New York. They show Shylock and His Daughter, a comedy by Ari Ibn Zahav directed by the master of Yiddish theatre, Maurice ...
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Hanns Eisler

Mensch und Masse

25.02.2009 - 13.09.2009, Palais Eskeles,

The composer Hanns Eisler is the subject of the next exhibition in the series "Music in Transition". He was born the son of Viennese philosopher Rudolf Eisler in Leipzig on July 6th, 1898. Returning to Vienna in 1901, Ei...
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"The Dangers of Versatility"

Friedrich Torberg

17.09.2008 - 08.03.2009, Palais Eskeles,

"On paper he was a nasty person, yet in flesh and blood he was lovely." Thus wrote Günther Nenning in an obituary of Friedrich Torberg (1908-1979). Opinions are divided in this way even today: to his friends, Torberg ha...
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Israel. 60 years – 60 images

From David Rubinger’s photo archive

07.05.2008 - 11.01.2009, Museum Judenplatz,

Continued until January 11, 2009!

David Rubinger, who was born in Vienna in 1924, is one of the most important press photographers of the 20th century. He was a photographic witness of the birth of ...
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Aleph Beth

Judaica Kid’s Box

03.10.2007 - 31.12.2009, Palais Eskeles,
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