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Topic: Vienna

May 24, 2013
4:42 pm

IAEA headquarters in Vienna. (photo credit: Sarajevo-x/Wikimedia Commons)

UN nuke agency’s Iran probe dependent on ‘suspicious’ US intel

American involvement in investigation complicates efforts to produce findings that can be accepted by international community

By George Jahn

May 23, 2013
2:03 pm

Vienna official: Looted Nazi goods returned

More than 70,000 items checked, and 6,000 handed back

May 15, 2013
10:03 pm

Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak/File)

UN fails again to reach nuke probe deal with Iran

Tehran chief negotiator calls 10th inconclusive IAEA meeting ‘constructive,’ continues to deny interest in nuclear arms

May 2, 2013
2:02 am

What could UN sleuths uncover at Iran’s Parchin base?

From the web Reuters: IAEA inspectors want access to the suspected nuclear site, where they say they can detect atomic material even if it was covered up

April 30, 2013
10:53 pm

John Malkovich in a stage production of 'The Infernal Comedy -- Confessions of a Serial Killer' (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube)

John Malkovich in Israel for musical-drama role

Actor to portray Viennese serial killer in highly acclaimed stage production this week in Tel Aviv and Eilat

By Asher Zeiger

April 4, 2013
2:07 pm

Vienna archbishop against adding non-Christian dates

Cardinal responds to recent calls by Muslim leaders to declare two holy days as non-working days for Muslims

March 12, 2013
3:18 pm

Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner, left, Resistance fighter Katharina Sasso and Chancellor Werner Faymann attend Monday's unveiling of a plaque honoring Austrians killed by the Nazis. (Hans Punz/AP)

Austria marks annexation by Germany 75 years ago

Official expressions of remorse follow worrying new survey showing how Nazis are remembered

By George Jahn

March 12, 2013
3:12 pm

Members of the Weinrauch family, including future filmmaker Gita, center, remained in Vienna until after WWII was underway. (Courtesy of Gita Kaufman)

75 years after Anschluss, Nazi ‘Shadows’ haunt Austria

On the anniversary of the country’s union with Hitler, a former child refugee preps for the premiere of her long-gestating film

By Matt Lebovic

March 10, 2013
6:21 am

The Jewish Museum in Vienna. (photo credit: CC BY Khawkins04,Flickr)

Incidents make Jews wary, 75 years after Hitler annexed Austria

From the web As Vienna marks anniversary of Anschluss, anti-Semitism is still an issue for Austrian Jews, Reuters reports

March 10, 2013
4:11 am

Cheering crowds in Austria welcoming Hitler in 1938. (photo credit: CC BY-SA German Federal Archives. Wikimedia commons)

2 in 5 Austrians say life under Hitler ‘not all bad’

Survey finds that majority feel they’ve sufficiently dealt with their Nazi past, would prefer strongman leader

By Joshua Davidovich

March 6, 2013
1:22 am

Managing director Alex Zirkler, left, pictured with administrator Julius Dem, has watched as the Lauder Business School has expanded from seven to more than 250 students. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Jewish business school celebrates 10 years in Europe

With an accomplished student body and classes in a renovated palace, Vienna’s Lauder Business School hopes growth will continue

By Cnaan Liphshiz

March 5, 2013
12:54 pm

“It does feel transgressive even now to me," Breuer-Weil says of his art. "But I’ve checked it out with a rabbi, and what I do is okay.” (Courtesy of David Breuer-Weil)

Rising UK art star gets the go-ahead from his rabbi

Inspired by the Talmud, Picasso and the Middle East, David Breuer-Weil is the toast of London, where his latest show has been extended twice

By Miriam Shaviv

February 27, 2013
3:51 am

Painted between 1970 and 1984, R.B. Kitaj's "Desk Murder" reflected on the bureaucracy that set the Holocaust in motion. (Birmingham Museums Trust)

London shows probe artist’s Holocaust ‘Obsessions’

R.B. Kitaj’s provocative, polarizing paintings return to public view in the first major retrospective since his 2007 suicide

By Anne Joseph

February 26, 2013
3:54 am

Like a growing number of Jews in Austria's capital, Karl Pfeifer grew up in Budapest but now lives in Vienna. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Austrian Jews woo Hungary’s spooked community

Vienna is luring emigres from Budapest, worried by economic woes and the rise of the far-right Jobbik party