May 1, 2017
8:39 pm

Ali Sahintuerk (L) of the First Vienna Football Club 1894 greets the fans after the regional League East game between First Vienna Football Club 1894 vs Parndorf in the Hohe Warte stadium in Vienna, on March 10, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ALEX HALADA)

Austria’s oldest soccer club, founded by a Rothschild, faces final whistle

123-year-old First Vienna FC, started by English gardeners for the banking heir, declares bankruptcy before relegation

By Simon Sturdee

April 23, 2017
6:06 pm

File: Hitler assesses looted art (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Nazi-pillaged artwork to be auctioned in Vienna

‘Portrait of a Man’ by Bartholomeus van der Helst taken during Holocaust from the famous Adolphe Schloss collection

By Times of Israel staff

April 8, 2017
2:14 am

Illustrative photo of a Jewish cemetery (Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland)

Online ad leads Vienna couple to buy ancient Jewish headstone for $300

19th-century tombstone handed on to president of Graz Jewish community, who is trying to locate cemetery from which it was taken

By JTA

March 12, 2017
2:10 pm

Illustrative photo of a Border Police officer arresting a Palestinian man in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber on September 18, 2015. (Israel Police)

Ya’alon quits Likud party, says it has ‘changed its face’

Israel busts 2 Palestinians ‘plotting shooting’ for Hamas; sandstorm forces Tel Aviv-bound flight to return to Vienna; Erdogan levels ‘Nazism and fascism’ charge against Netherlands

By Ilan Ben Zion

January 30, 2017
10:13 pm

Demonstrators protest President Donald Trump's executive immigration ban, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, January 29, 2017. (AFP/Joshua LOTT)

US ban forces Iranians home after days at Vienna airport

Elderly couple and an unrelated middle-aged woman held out hope they would be able to complete trips to visit family in US

By AFP

January 26, 2017
11:47 am

Michael Shinagel, former dean, was the longest-serving person in the position in Harvard's history. Here he is pictured in his office. (Rich Tenorio/Times of Israel)

How an escape from the Nazis colored the career of Harvard’s longest-serving dean

Now retired, Michael Shinagel reflects on his family’s flight from Vienna and how he, a boy who didn’t know English until age 7, earned a PhD in literature

By Rich Tenorio

January 23, 2017
11:27 pm

Signature page of Sigmund Freud's signed physician's oath dated April 30, 1883, which goes on auction on January 26, 2017. (Nate D. Sanders Auctions)

Signed Freud papers set to go on auction

Rare documents belonging to father of psychoanalysis among items up for sale in LA on Thursday, along with a letter from Dachau and a royal decree from Ferdinand and Isabella

By Ilan Ben Zion

January 13, 2017
2:15 pm

Ari Rath in 2013. (CC BY-SA Franz Johann Morgenbesser, Flickr)

Former Jerusalem Post editor Ari Rath dies at 92

Israeli-Austrian journalist led newspaper for 14 years, expected to be buried in Israel

By Times of Israel staff and AP

December 28, 2016
8:41 am

Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache casts his vote in national elections at a polling station in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. (AFP)

Russia’s chief rabbi blasted for meeting Austrian far-right leader

Vienna rabbis condemn visit with Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of Freedom Party that wants to ban ritual slaughter

By JTA

December 1, 2016
8:31 pm

Nikolaus Wostry, head of Film Collections of Filmmarchiv Austria, shows an old damaged film at Filmarchiv Austria in Laxenburg on November 15, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JOE KLAMAR)

Austria races against time to preserve anti-Nazi film

Full version of 1924 silent movie that proved disturbingly prophetic in its dark depiction of European anti-Semitism discovered by chance at a Paris flea market last year

By Sophie MAKRIS

November 22, 2016
4:01 pm

Ceramicist and 'The Hare With Amber Eyes' author Edmund de Waal (Ben McKee)

How tiny Japanese sculptures prompted a quest into Jewish roots — and Nazi looting

On emotional first visit to Israel, Edmund de Waal, heir to the mighty Ephrussi banking dynasty wiped out by Nazis, says his bestselling ‘The Hare with Amber Eyes’ is his proactive means of restitution

By Renee Ghert-Zand

November 14, 2016
1:54 pm

Barbara Sukowa as Friderike Zweig and Josef Hader as Stefan Zweig in 'Stefan Zweig' (Dor Film)

Austria’s Oscar contender explores exile’s tragic effects on Jewish writer Stefan Zweig

Innovative historical feature film takes on new meaning for audiences watching through lens of contemporary political events