The Hebrew alphabet has 22 characters. If you enter “Hebrew” as a search term in the museum inventory, 606 objects are listed. Did you know that Yiddish and Ladino are written in Hebrew letters?... more
Do you know where Fünfhaus lies and where Sechshaus is located? A Kiddush cup from the Fünfhauser Temple and plaques for charitable institutions from the synagogue in Sechshaus can be found at the Jewish Museum Vienna...more
...you will find 78 entries in the inventory of the Jewish Museum Vienna, including the family name Glück, “Glückwünsche” (congratulations) and blessings for the Jewish New Year in autumn, birthday wishes (“Glückwünsche”) and closings at the end of letters... more
This form of Hanukkah menorah is called the bench-style type. The technical terms from the silversmith’s workshop describe the menorah as wrought, engraved, chased and textured... more
Did you know that... ...Friedrich Torberg’s actual name was Friedrich Kantor? …his mother’s maiden name was Berg and that his pseudonym arose around 1930? …Friedrich Kantor played water polo and was a member of the Hakoah?... more
Since November 2013, the mahjong game that Oskar Rosenzweig brought with him from his exile in Shanghai when he arrived at the Meidling Train Station in February 1947 and was greeted by the Mayor of Vienna Theodor Körner has been in the permanent exhibition of the Jewish Museum Vienna... more
When Otto and Karl Pollak took over the coffee house near the Westbahnhof at Äußere Mariahilfer Straße 135 in 1919, a further concert café complemented Vienna’s rich amusement and entertainment scene... more
In its second January 1937 issue, the weekly cultural and lifestyle magazine Die Bühne devoted a total of four double pages to reporting on the Vienna Opera Ball... more
