Vienna

Child cries as her Jewish father parts from her in the restored 'City Without Jews' (Courtesy of Film Archiv Austria)

June 11, 2018, 3:20 pm

Recovered in Paris flea market, 1924 Austrian silent film is a Holocaust preview

Based on famous novel and digitally restored, 'City Without Jews' includes stunningly prescient scenes depicting passage of anti-Jewish laws and deportations from Vienna

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Austria's newly elected leader Sebastian Kurz, head of the Austrian Peoples Party, OVP, during a news conference in Vienna, Austria, October 24, 2017. (AFP Phoro/APA/Georg Hochmuth)

June 8, 2018, 12:33 pm

Austria to close seven mosques, expel imams in radicalism crackdown

Move by conservative government follows plans to ban girls's headscarves in elementary schools and kindergartens

By AP

Marko Feingold,104 years old, poses for a picture at the Israeli Cultural Centre in Salzburg, Austria on March 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JOE KLAMAR)

March 17, 2018, 7:54 am

Holocaust survivor Marko Feingold, 104, recalls the Anschluss

Jewish survivor shares memories of Hitler's takeover of Austria, and how anti-Semitism lingered on well after the war

By Philippe SCHWAB

Police officers gather outside the Iranian ambassador's residence after an attack in Vienna, Austria, on March 12, 2018. (AFP Photo/APA/Hans Punz)

March 13, 2018, 12:44 pm

Vienna knife attacker had Islamist sympathies

Authorities say Austrian national who attacked guard outside Iranian envoy's residence 'clearly' leaned toward 'political Islam,' but mum on motive

By AFP

A police officer passes by a forensic expert after several people were reported injured in a knife attack on the streets of Vienna, Austria, on March 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

March 7, 2018, 11:55 pm

Three people seriously injured in Vienna knife attack

Report says man with blade began stabbing people randomly; police searching for suspect

By AP

People hold up placards during a protest against Austria's far-right Freedom Paty in Vienna on January 26, 2018. (AFP Photo/APA/Hans Punz)

February 2, 2018, 6:38 pm

Austria shaken by ‘Nazi songbook’ scandal

Affair has thrown spotlight on the far-right Freedom Party, nationalist fraternities and conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz

By Sophie MAKRIS

People watch ceremonies marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, January 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

January 26, 2018, 2:14 pm

The inevitable politicization of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Since 2005, the UN has commemorated the genocide of European Jewry every year on January 27. This weekend's observance is galvanizing activists from South Carolina to Vienna

By Matt Lebovic

A section of Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze (Photo credit: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)

January 19, 2018, 11:32 pm

Vienna marks 100 years since heyday of art, and its Jewish collectors

A century after fall of Austro-Hungarian empire, museums in Austrian capital display country's top works, some of which were looted by Nazis

By Philippe SCHWAB

An illustration of young Muslim women wearing hijabs (screen capture: YouTube)

January 6, 2018, 8:19 am

Racism row online in Austria over Muslim New Year’s baby

The birth of Asel, hailed in the press as 'first Viennese baby' of 2018, sparks wave of hate-infused comments online as the mother can be seen seen wearing Islamic veil

By AFP

Newly sworn-in Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, left, and new Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, the FPOe’s chairman, talk during the swearing-in ceremony of the new Austrian government in Vienna on December 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

December 19, 2017, 5:22 pm

As far-right Austrian party attempts to shed Nazi past, a dilemma for Israel

Jerusalem conflicted over whether to side with Diaspora Jewish leaders, who are shunning FPOe, or engage in realpolitik to advance Israel's interests

By Raphael Ahren

This file photo taken on May 8, 2012 shows Austrian fraternity members marching as they hold a commemoration ceremony and a rally (AFP / DIETER NAGL)

December 2, 2017, 12:22 pm

Austria’s nationalist ‘frats’ prepare for government

Far-right party leader Heinz-Christian Strache flirted with neo-Nazism in his youth, but today denies any extremist sympathies

By Sophie MAKRIS

Tamar Morali hopes to represent Germany in the Miss Universe competition. (Tamar Morali via Instagram/JTA)

November 25, 2017, 1:58 am

A Jewish woman is competing to be Miss Germany

Tamar Morali, 21, grew up in Vienna and is currently studying in Israel at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

By Josefin Dolsten

Martin Engelberg, a freshman lawmaker for the People’s Party (OeVP), on his first day in parliament, November 9, 2017 (courtesy)

November 14, 2017, 11:59 am

Jewish-Austrian MP: Now’s not the time to move our embassy to Jerusalem

Far-right Freedom Party supports relocation, but Martin Engelberg, of the ruling People's Party, says no moves should be made before peace deal

By Raphael Ahren

October 24, 2017, 7:56 pm

Austria’s Kurz seeks coalition with far-right Freedom Party

Partnership expected to implement tougher immigration controls, quick deportations of asylum-seekers whose requests are denied

By AP

A Vienna subway stop in 2008. (Dieter Nagl/AFP/Getty Images)

October 20, 2017, 9:36 pm

Vienna subway remembers city’s little-known apartment concentration camps

Installation commemorates two houses on small street that were used as 'mini-concentration camps' before deportations

By Cnaan Liphshiz