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BernsteinA New Yorker
in Vienna
October 17, 2018 – May 5, 2019
In Partnerschaft mit:
Judenplatz 8, Wien 1 · So–Do 10 – 18 Uhr, Fr 10 – 14 Uhr · www.jmw.at
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S AV E T H E D AT E
US-FRIENDS NEWS Spring/Summer 2018
Please join us for our
Exclusive black tie Gala at the Hotel Bristol, Leonard Bernstein’s favorite hotel in Vienna
On October 15, 2018
The Gala starts at seven thirty in the evening with a Champagne reception.
We will celebrate the outstanding composer and conductor with a special evening full of musical surprises by some of
Leonard Bernstein’s Austrian and international friends and contemporaries.
Tables up to 10 persons Euro 5.000
1 Seat Euro 500
Dress code: Black Tie/Evening gown
For your stay in Vienna, we recommend Hotel Bristol, where the Gala will take place. Hotel Bristol, is right across the street
of the Vienna State Opera House and offers a special discount of 20% for your reservation – we kindly ask you to contact
[email protected] and refer to the “US Friends of the Jewish Museum Vienna”.
A special project in 2019
The 3 with the Pen
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www.jmw.at/en/us-friends
www.jmw.at/en/education-jewish-museum-vienna (our education programs)
US Friends of the Jewish Museum Vienna is a non-profit organ-
ization according to §501(c) (3) IRS rules. All donations are fully
tax deductible within the limits established by law.
The proceeds from the donations of the US
Circle of Friends as well as their fund rais-
ing events were and will be used for our
projects. Your generous contributions to
the Jewish Museum Vienna are essential
for us. Thank you for supporting our goals
and our mission to treasure the memories
of the Viennese Jews and to outline their
endeavors for the development of Vienna,
especially by the means of education.
Paul Peter Porges
© Jewish Museum Vienna
Senorita Rios
curtesy by
Lilly Rene ́e
Bill Spira
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he exhibition Die 3 mit dem Stift
(The 3 with the Pen) brings three
outstanding Viennese cartoonists
and illustrators back to the city from
which they were forced to flee in 1938/39.
Bil Spira escaped to France, where he
worked as a counterfeiter of documents
at the ‘Emergency Rescue Committee’.
Following his liberation after being im-
prisoned in several concentration camps,
he settled down in Paris as a caricaturist
and photographer for numerous maga-
zines. Both Lily Renée and Peter Paul
Porges managed to escape Nazi persecu-
tion by means of Children’s Transport.
While Lily Renée celebrated great suc-
cess as one of the first and few women on
the US comics market, Peter Paul Porges
or PPP, as he was known by his family and
friends, became a cartoonist for the leg-
endary MAD Magazine, The New Yorker
and other influential publications.
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@jewishmuseumvienna
@jewishmuseumVIE
Further information:
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© Jewish Museum Vienna
Werner Hanak, Simon Posch, Danielle Spera,
Christine Moser, Nina Simons Bernstein,
Silvia Kargl and Friedemann Pestel
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Activities of the US Friends
US Friends exclusive Matinée at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York
he latest event of the Jewish
Museum’s US Friends in 2018 was
dedicated to Leonard Bernstein.
We invited the US Circle of Friends to a
Matinée at the Austrian Cultural Forum
New York (ACFNY) to celebrate our up-
coming exhibition “Leonard Bernstein. A
New Yorker in Vienna”. In memory of the
first collaboration with Bernstein in 1966,
members of the Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra played Mozart’s Klarinetten-
quintett A-Dur KV581-I. This very exclu-
sive concert by the Philharmonics was a
tribute to Leonard Bernstein on the oc-
casion of his 100thbirthday. The exhibition
“Leonard Bernstein. A New Yorker in
Vienna”, will open on October 16, 2018 in
Vienna.
Our event was the third collaboration
between the Austrian Cultural Forum
New York and the Jewish Museum
Vienna. We are very grateful for this won-
derful support and want to thank partic-
ularly ACFNY director Dr Christine Moser.
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hanks to the support of the US Circle of Friends, the Jew-
ish Museum Vienna was able to acquire a sensational set
of architectural drawings by Simon Wiesenthal from
1945. The drawings are a unique and significant testimony of
an individual trying to survive the murderous system of the Na-
tional Socialists. Wiesenthal is known as a person who tracked
down Adolf Eichmann and who dedicated his life to fight for jus-
tice for victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust. However, be-
fore the Nazi occupation of Poland, he was an architect. Now,
one of the last architectural works by Simon Wiesenthal has
reappeared. It consists of detailed plans and drawings for a café
in the city of Posnan, drawn in the year 1945, which was never
built. It was commissioned by a Polish prisoner, Eduard
Staniszewski, who supported Wiesenthal in his struggle to sur-
vive at Mauthausen concentration camp. “It helped me to forget
where I was and took my mind off the dead and the dying people
around me”, Wiesenthal says. (The Murderers Among Us, The
Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs, Edited and with an Introductory
Profile by Joseph Wechsberg, New York, 1967, p. 43–44)
s of November 2018, an urban com-
memorative project by the Jewish
Museum Vienna, in cooperation
with the University of Applied Arts Vienna
and the renowned Austrian artist Brigitte
Kowanz, will place permanent artistic light
symbols at the former locations of the Vi-
ennese synagogues and prayer houses,
which were destroyed in 1938. At many of
the former sites there is no evidence today
of the tragic events of November 1938 and
of the synagogues that were once there.
Now, 80 years later, a lasting sign of com-
memoration to the November Pogrom is
to be set. An independent jury chose the
project “Sternstele” (“Star Stele”) by Lukas
Maria Kaufmann. The sculpture reveals an
intertwined, illuminated Star of David.
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© Jewish Museum Vienna
© Lukas Kaufmann
TWiesenthal drawings
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Making the Destroyed Visible Again: The “OT” project
he Jewish Museum is tremen-
dously thankful to Edmund de
Waal and his family, who donated
the archive of the Ephrussi family, as ex-
plored by the author in The Hare with
Amber Eyes. Victor de Waal formally
handed over the family archive to the
Jewish Museum Vienna. The Ephrussi
archive contains hundreds of pho-
tographs, notebooks, diaries and letters
relating to the family’s life in Vienna,
Paris, Odessa and Tokyo. It also includes
manuscripts of Elisabeth de Waal’s nov-
els. The Jewish Museum Vienna is very
grateful to the families de Waal and
Ephrussi for lending some of the beauti-
ful Netsukes (small Japanese sculp-
tures) to the museum, those figurines
which inspired British writer Edmund de
Waal’s extraordinary family memoir The
Hare with Amber Eyes. This outstanding
donation forms the basis of an exhibition
on the Ephrussi family’s journey, which
led them from Odessa to Paris and Vi-
enna and ended brutally in Vienna in
1938. The exhibition will open in fall
2019.
News from Vienna
Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz, Werner Hanak, Edmund de Waal, Danielle Spera, Andreas Mailath-Pokorny and Peter Hanke
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Leigh Turner, Danielle Spera, Werner Hanak and Edmund de Waal
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Donation of the de Waal family and upcoming “The Hare with Amber Eyes” exhibition
he legendary Jerusalem mayor
grew up in Vienna and got involved
in Zionist youth organizations. He
left Austria as a 24-year-old, heading to-
wards Palestine in 1935. There, he
founded the “Ein Gev” kibbutz on the
eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Kollek’s life journey tells of constantly
worsening conditions in Vienna before
the so-called Anschluss, of his work to
rescue refugees from the Nazi regime,
his efforts to enable a peaceful co-exis-
tence between Jews and Palestinians
and, finally, of turning Jerusalem into a
modern and thriving city with lots of cul-
tural venues, e.g. the Israel Museum,
parks and recreation areas. Teddy Kollek
was reluctant to return to his former
hometown Vienna for a long time. In the
1980s, he convinced Vienna’s mayor Hel-
mut Zilk to reopen a Jewish Museum,
which was closed forcefully in March
1938 by the National Socialists. Teddy
Kollek was present at the opening cere-
mony in 1993. The mesusa that he
brought as a gift serves as a memory of
him at the entrance of the Jewish Mu-
seum Vienna.
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Exhibitions
Spring and Summer 2018 marked the openings of three wonderful new exhibitions. First, Teddy Kollek.
The Viennese mayor of Jerusalem, followed by Persecuted. Engaged. Married. Marriages of
Convenience in Exile, and lastly, The Place to Be. Salons – Spaces of Emancipation.
Teddy Kollek. The Viennese mayor of Jerusalem
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alons in Vienna between 1780 and 1930 were the place
to be for the intellectual and artistic society. Today, they
would be described as networking in the best sense.
Mostly shaped by their Jewish hostesses, these communica-
tion spaces were also spaces of emancipation and empower-
ment in two respects: for women, who were still excluded from
public life, and for the development of a critical, middle-class
civic society. The exhibition introduces the salons of Fanny von
Arnstein and Josephine von Wertheimstein, the reform salons
of Berta Zuckerkandl and Eugenie Schwarzwald as cultured
spaces of politics and political spaces of culture. It makes the
accomplishments of salonnières for the Viennese cultural,
economic and political scene tangible. And it ultimately shows
the importance of Viennese salon culture for the expelled
Viennese Jewish women and men in exile.
ewish women persecuted during
the Nazi era were able to escape
into exile by means of marriages of
convenience with foreigners. These mar-
riages were contracted pro forma for
money or out of solidarity. In most cases,
the spouses were found in one’s own sur-
roundings, sometimes it was a relative.
Through the disparate marriage and citi-
zenship law, women had the possibility to
obtain a different citizenship through
marriage. Some succeeded in utilizing
this in a subversive way for their flight or
their stay in exile. In order to be able to re-
main in the respective country of exile and
to have a secured livelihood, they entered
into marriages of convenience. This, how-
ever, also carried risks such as the depen-
dence on the formal spouse and fear of
sexual exploitation, as well as extortion
and denunciation. Many women after-
wards concealed their sham marriages in
their flight stories. The exhibition displays
destinies of Viennese Jewish women and
shows how the women’s lives took a deci-
sive turn.
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