VIENNA — Lisa Wegenstein is putting shakshuka on the menu. She hopes it won’t get her any hate. Wegenstein, 59, runs Kantine, ...

Over a weekend in mid-June, about 500 people gathered in Vienna, Austria, for what organizers dubbed the city’s first Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress. Israelis, Jews, allies, activists and academics from ...

My father’s father, Joachim Manne, or Chaim, as he was called, was a Galician Jew born in 1872 and raised in Cracow, in the Polish lands of the Habsburg Empire. His family owned a substantial ...

On Wednesday, Sept. 11, the Hertiage conference room on the fourth floor of the Homer Babbidge Library filled with listeners ready to hear a presentation by PhD candidate Joscha Valentin Jelitzki.

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The Program in Judaic Studies, the Center for Collaborative History, and the Program in European Cultural Studies invite you to join us for this talk by Frances Tanzer on Thursday, October 30.

Three years ago, Fanni moved to Vienna from her native Hungary with her husband. Now she is pregnant. Though the couple would prefer to raise their child near their Jewish families in Budapest, rising ...

One hundred thirty years ago, in 1895, the first Jewish museum in the world was opened in Vienna. The capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was at that time home to the third biggest Jewish community ...

Resumption of anti-Jewish excesses in Vienna was reported by London newspapers today. Youths armed with iron bars broke into Jewish shops and apartments in Karmeliterplatz and Flossgasse, smashing ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Marina Plistiev, a Kyrgyzstan-born Jew, has lived in Vienna for 34 years but still doesn't like to take public transport. She recalls the day in 1986 as a teenager when she and her ...