Eugenie Schwarzwald

"Doing good and doing yourself good"

24.11.2010 - 06.03.2011, Palais Eskeles,

Eugenie Schwarzwald (1872-1940) was born in Galicia and is one of the most fascinating women of her generation. She devoted her persuasive personality and indefatigable energy to reforming the education system, in particular schoo...
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Ernst Toch

Life as Geographical Fugue

23.06.2010 - 31.10.2010, Palais Eskeles,

Ernst Toch (1887–1964) was one of the most played new composers in Germany in the 1920s. Together with Paul Hindemith he was a main proponent of New Objectivity in music. And yet, despite his many awards (incl...
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Turks in Vienna

12.05.2010 - 31.10.2010, Palais Eskeles,

The year 1492 was a fateful one for Spain. It was the year in which the Reconquista finally ended eight hundred years of Arab Muslim rule, the Jews were expelled from the country, and Christopher Columbus set off on a journey that...
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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 Bibliothec...
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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!