Four years ago, the Jewish Museum received an extensive permanent loan: the estate of Carlo Alberto Brunner.
Paintings, letters and documents, photographs, memorabilia and everyday objects of this Hohenems family enable a critical look at a European century. And they open a panoramic view on a family that in the first half of the 19th century set out from Hohenems to Trieste to contribute to the development of the Habsburg Monarchy’s Mediterranean metropolis.
From here, members of the Brunner family went on to Vienna and Switzerland, to England, Germany, and the USA. Their steep social and cultural ascent ended in Europe’s catastrophe, in the ravages of a continent filled with mutual hatred, and in the devastations of two world wars, which dispersed parts of the family around the world.
Reservation required:
T +43(0)5576 73989 | E-Mail: office@jm-hohenems.at
If the booking is heavy, the tour will be conducted twice in a row.
Online lecture and discussion with Prof. Dr. Natan Sznaider, Tel Aviv (in German)
Link to the recording:
“It would also be bad for Europe if the cultural energies of the Jews left it.” These words were written by Walter Benjamin as a twenty-year-old in 1912 to his Zionist friend Ludwig Strauss, and they are also the central theme of this talk. It is about Jews and Europe, about an unrequited relationship that ended tragically.
Shortly before he attempted to flee from France to the United States to escape the Nazis, Benjamin wrote to his friend Stephan Lackner in Paris, “One wonders if history is not about to forge a witty synthesis of two Nietzschean concepts, that of the good European and that of the last man. This could result in the last European. We are all struggling not to become one.”
On October 21, 1940, Hannah Arendt wrote to Gershom Scholem in Jerusalem. “Jews are dying in Europe and they are being buried like dogs.” Arendt also used these words to inform Scholem of the suicide of Walter Benjamin, who had taken his own life in Port Bou a month earlier. He was turned away by Spanish border officials who wanted to send him back to France. A few months later, in May 1941, Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher reached New York by the same route by which Benjamin had previously failed.
Fifteen years later, in 1956, the Jewish writer and sociologist Albert Memmi left Tunisia for France. For him, as a Jew, there was no place left in independent Tunisia.
This lecture is about Jewish places and Jewish people such as Hannah Arendt, Albert Memmi, Walter Benjamin, Arnold Zweig, Moritz Goldstein, Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, Karl Marx, Bruno Schulz, but also all the unknowns who exemplify the “We and Europe”. It is about both the hope and the end of the European-Jewish relationship.
Natan Sznaider Natan Sznaider is a professor of sociology at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa in Israel. He researches and publishes on sociological theory, globalization and memory culture, and at the moment on the relationship of Jewish Enlightenment to sociology. Born in Mannheim, Germany, he now lives and works in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. His most recent publications include: Jewish Memory and the Cosmopolitan Order (2011), Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era (2016, with Alejandro Baer), Gesellschaften in Israel: Eine Einführung in Zehn Bildern (2017), Neuer Antisemitismus? Fortsetzung einer globalen Debatte (2019, as ed. with Christian Heilbronn and Doron Rabinovici), Politik des Mitgefühls. Die Vermarktung der Gefühle in der Demokratie (2021).
European Summer University for Jewish Studies Hohenems
An event organized by the Department of Jewish History and Culture, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; the Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Basel; the Center for Jewish Cultural History, the Institute of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck; the Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Vienna; the Chair of Jewish Studies, Otto Friedrich University Bamberg; and the Sigi Feigel Professorship for Jewish Studies, University of Zurich, the Jewish Studies Program of the Central University in Vienna—in collaboration with the Jewish Museum Hohenems.
Before anyone had begun dreaming of a political unification of Europe, Jews were already experiencing transnational and transregional networks as a way of life in the European Diaspora and playing an active role in cultural transfer. Multilingualism, marriage migration, and mobility were self-evident conditions of a proto-European lifeworld whose structures never matched the changing borders of sovereignty. For centuries, the unification of Europe was, at best, a notion in the context of a Christian West—before Enlightenment and Reformation, secularization and the emergence of nation states assigned also European Jews a new role in society.
Jewish intellectuals from Heinrich Heine to Stefan Zweig, from Joseph Roth to Moritz Julius Bonn provided inspiration on the road toward the European idea.
The European catastrophes of the 20th century culminated in the mass extermination of the European Jews. Nevertheless, even after the Holocaust, Jews were among the trailblazers of European unification, such as Simone Veil, the first president of the European Parliament.
Today, many cast again doubt on Project Europe. European societies react with growing nationalism to the worldwide migration and the emergence of new diaspora identities. Prominent Jewish protagonists become model Europeans while, at the same time, Europe’s nationalists co-opt the State of Israel as a bastion of the “Christian-Jewish Occident” against the “Orient.”
From June 6 until 11, 2021, the 12th European Summer University for Jewish Studies Hohenems will investigate—as usual, from a broad interdisciplinary perspective—the historic and social, economic, religious and cultural dimensions of the Jewish role—both as protagonists as well as playing pieces—in Project Europe and the current threats facing it.
With Natan Sznaider (Tel Aviv), Diana Pinto (Paris), Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek (Vienna), Hanan Bordin (Jerusalem/Regensburg), Armin Eidherr (Salzburg), Michael Studemund-Halevy (Hamburg), Andreas Kilcher (Zurich), Kiran Patel (Munich), Liliana Feierstein (Berlin), Philipp Lenhard (Munich), Alfred Bodenheimer (Basel), Noam Zadoff (Innsbruck), Michael Miller (Budapest/Vienna), Friedrich Battenberg (Darmstadt), Rachel First (Munich), Erik Petry (Basel), Carsten Wilke (Budapest/Vienna), Judith Müller (Basel), Barbara Hände (Basel), Hans-Joachim Hahn (Aachen/Basel), Evita Wiecki (Munich), Gerhard Langer (Vienna) und Daniel Mahla (Munich).
Information and registration on: www.jgk.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de
Participation feefor students (including accommodation and breakfast)
250,- €
for Non-Students (without accommodation) 220,- €
Thanks for the support to: Amt der Vorarlberger Landesregierung, Kultur und Wissenschaft – Amt der Stadt Hohenems – Collini Hohenems – Freundeskreis des Lehrstuhls für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, München
Online-Lecture and Talk with Dr. Brian Klug, London (in English)
The recording you find here:
Jewish Museum Hohenems in collaboration with the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna, an event in the series Borders and Identities and the program of The Last Europeans.
The idea of a post-war Europe, founded on universal values of human rights, justice and peace, goes by the name ‘Project Europe’ (or: ‘New Europe’). In a Jewish perspective Brian Klug offers, Jews, as Jews, are woven into the crisis of New Europe, which simultaneously is a crisis in Judaism. For New Europe is still haunted by Old Europe’s ‘Jewish Question’; and Jews are too. The general sense of this toxic question (whose roots lie in antiquity) is this: “What should Europe do with its Jews?” With the change from Old to New, Jews have gone from foil to model: from internal alien to “the first, the oldest Europeans” (Romano Prodi). The hyphen in ‘Judeo-Christian’ writes Judaism into the European self. At the same time, Europe is written into the Jewish state: “Europe ends in Israel. East of Israel, there is no more Europe” (Benjamin Netanyahu). This entwining of New Europe and the Jews entails the othering of both Islam and Palestinians. “Oh, what a tangled web we weave” (Walter Scott). The lecture will argue that, for the sake of the future, we need to take the web apart at the seams: unweaving it: unravelling Europe’s Jewish Question.
Brian Klug is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford; member of the faculty of philosophy at the University of Oxford; Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton; and Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences, Saint Xavier University, Chicago. He is Associate Editor of the journal Patterns of Prejudice, and a member of the International Advisory Boards for Islamophobia Studies Yearbook; ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies; and ‘Negotiating Jewish Identity: Jewish Life in 21st Century Norway’ (a project of The Norwegian Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities). He has published extensively on Judaism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism and related topics. His books on Jewish subjects include: Being Jewish and Doing Justice: Bringing Argument to Life; Offence: The Jewish Case; A Time To Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity (co-editor).
On October 20, 2020, we interviewed Brian Klug for our exhibition: About the crisis of Europe and its production of “others”.
Location: Jewish Museum Hohenems
Schweizer Str. 5, 6845 Hohenems
Live and Online-Lecture and Discussion with Prof. Dr. Michael Miller, Budapest/Vienna (in English) – Live event with reservation only
Here the lecture on YouTube:
Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder of the Paneuropa Union, was an enigmatic figure: aristocrat, cosmopolitan and passionate opponent of anti-Semitism. The Paneuropa Union, which imagined a Europe without borders, had among its members – in addition to many a member of the nobility seeking new orientation – numerous Jews who felt attracted by the idea of a tolerant, fraternal Europe. And this despite the fact that the Paneuropa Union saw itself as a Christian movement. Michael Miller’s lecture deals with the Paneuropa Union of the interwar period, its attraction to Jews, its confrontation with the Jewish question of the time, and its advocacy of pacifism and transnational reconciliation. In the end, the Pan-European Union was on the losing end – and at the same time became a forerunner of the European Union after the catastrophe of World War II.
Michael Millerdirects the Nationalism Studies Program at the Central European University in Vienna/Budapest, where he also teaches in the Jewish Studies Program. His research focuses on the impact of nationality conflicts on the religious, cultural, and political development of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. Miller is a founding member of the International Consortium for Research on Antisemitism and Racism. His book Rabbis and Revolution: the Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation was published in 2011. He is currently working on a history of Hungarian Jewry.
Salomon Sulzer Auditorium, Schweizer Str. 21, Hohenems
With reservation only.
Online access at Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89845966753?pwd=TG5MWjhJdXhhZldHTm8vUGNSTThBUT09#success
If their ancestors had still been butchers and cattle dealers in Hohenems, the Jewish Brunner family experienced a steep social and cultural rise: at the beginning of the 19th century, almost an entire generation left Vorarlberg to seek their fortune elsewhere. Their destination was the Austrian port city of Trieste, whose rapid development as a Habsburg Mediterranean metropolis also brought the Brunners a period of splendor. Economic migrants became economic magnates, and wholesalers eventually became upper-class citizens. The history of large parts of Europe is reflected in a family that soon lived scattered over large parts of Europe and yet remained in close contact with each other and with Hohenems. With the development of Europe into a continent of nationalism and mutual hatred, with the devastation of two world wars and the expulsion and annihilation of the European Jews, the heyday of the Brunner family also ended. Parts of the family were scattered all over the world. But members of the family still meet regularly, somewhere on the globe, or in Hohenems.
The starting point for this book is the exhibition “The Last Europeans. Jewish Perspectives on the Crises of an Idea” at the Jewish Museum Hohenems-and an extensive permanent loan to the museum: the estate of Carlo Alberto Brunner, consisting of letters and documents, memorabilia, and everyday objects from many generations of the Brunner family. They provide a perspective on 300 years of Jewish family history and on a European era that ended in war and destruction.
Hannes Sulzenbacher, born 1968 in Innsbruck, is co-director of QWIEN – Center for Queer History (Vienna) and freelance exhibition curator. Since 2014 he has been head of the scientific-curatorial team of the new installation of the Austrian exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
The book:
Hannes Sulzenbacher: The Brunner Family. A European-Jewish History.Hohenems-Trieste-Vienna.
236 pages, 95 illustrations, 17 x 24 cm, 19.80 €, Hohenems: Bucher Verlag, 2021, ISBN: 978-3-99018-573-5.
What was ‘Project Europe’ and what has become of it? And what will become of it? Has the European Union drifted apart even further in times of alarming global challenges—posed not solely by the Corona pandemic—instead of moving closer together? Are national interests increasingly pitted against European solutions?
Against the background of these questions, the Jewish Museum Hohenems looks at Jewish individuals who in the face of Europe’s devastations and the attempted annihilation of the European Jews in the 20th century transcended national and cultural borders, demanded anew the universal application of human rights, and vigorously pursued a European dream. Based on their commitment to a united and peaceful Europe, the exhibition examines at the same time the renewed threats.
For this look at European utopias and disenchantments, the exhibition starts off by recalling the powerlessness and by looking back on the history of violence of the 20th century, on wars, genocides, and civil wars in Europe and under the banner of European colonialism.
The European project has seen itself also as a comprehensive peace project not only in view of the almost inconceivable sacrifices the boundless violence of Europe’s “civilized” societies had exacted. Nowadays, the EU increasingly emerges as a defensive alliance, limited to security- and economic interests. Is Europe, therefore, doomed to fail?
Reservation required:
T +43(0)5576 73989 | E-Mail: office@jm-hohenems.at
If the booking is heavy, the tour will be conducted twice in a row.
Kurator Hannes Sulzenbacher im online-Gespräch mit Hanno Loewy. Über den Chat haben Sie die Möglichkeit, Fragen zu stellen und sich an der Diskussion zu beteiligen.
Zugang zum Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88312532982?pwd=NS9kTXF4VG1LbEZ0a3VPc3liZS9Odz09#success
Foto: Dietmar Walser
75 Jahre nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ist Europa von einer Wiederkehr des Nationalismus bedroht. Der Europäische Traum des „Nie wieder“ wird von Vielen in Frage gestellt. Das Jüdische Museum blickt noch einmal auf die „ersten Europäer“, auf jüdische Familien, deren Existenz davon geprägt war, nationale und kulturelle Grenzen zu überschreiten und europäische Ideen zu kommunizieren. Die Hohenemser Familie Brunner wanderte in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts nach Triest aus, um an der rasanten Entwicklung der habsburgischen Mittelmeermetropole teilzunehmen. Ihre Familiensaga wird zum Ausgangspunkt einer offenen Debatte über die Zukunft Europas.
Hannes Sulzenbacher, geboren 1968 in Innsbruck, ist Co-Leiter von QWIEN – Zentrum für queere Geschichte (Wien) und freier Ausstellungskurator. Seit 2014 ist er Leiter des wissenschaftlich-kuratorischen Teams der Neuaufstellung der österreichischen Ausstellung im Staatlichen Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Online-Lecture and talk with Dr. Diana Pinto, Paris (in English)
It was in the mid-1990’s Diana Pinto coined the term “Jewish Space” to define one of the specificities of the Jewish presence/absence, ongoing creativity and memory inside what was at the time a rapidly expanding European setting. After the fall of the Berlin Wall a new whiff of democratic pluralism allowed Jews across the continent to define themselves well beyond their official Jewish representative institutions. “Jewish Spaces” emerged where Jewish themes, ideas, creativity, life, traditions, and history intersected with the wider society – in a diasporic setting in which, unlike Israel or the United States, non-Jews were also integral actors of these Spaces. At the same time, in the past thirty years, doubts about an ongoing Jewish future in the former lands of the Holocaust have never gone away. They have even increased with the return of antisemitism and the much publicized departure of many Jews (especially in France) to settle in Israel. For many, Europe was once a continent of Jewish life, but no longer. Diana Pinto counters this interpretation by explaining why Jewish Spaces across Europe are continuing to expand. The symbolic importance of these Jewish Spaces has even taken on a new relevance in light of the growing populism and right wing revisionism which has infected the entire Western world (including Israel and the US). In the battle between liberal democracy and illiberal populism, such Spaces are destined to play an ever more important role in anchoring pluralist reflexes and universal values across the Continent.
Diana Pinto is an intellectual historian and writer based in Paris. She is Italian, French and American and was educated at Harvard University (B.A. and Ph.D). In the 1990’s she was the Editor in Chief of Belvédère, a French pan-European review and subsequently a Consultant to the Political Directorate of the Council of Europe for its civil society programs in Eastern Europe and Russia. She subsequently directed the Ford Foundation’s Voices for the Res Publica program as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London. She has lectured and written widely on European and Jewish topics and is the author of Israel has Moved (2013).
What was ‘Project Europe’ and what has become of it? And what will become of it? Has the European Union drifted apart even further in times of alarming global challenges—posed not solely by the Corona pandemic—instead of moving closer together? Are national interests increasingly pitted against European solutions?
Against the background of these questions, the Jewish Museum Hohenems looks at Jewish individuals who in the face of Europe’s devastations and the attempted annihilation of the European Jews in the 20th century transcended national and cultural borders, demanded anew the universal application of human rights, and vigorously pursued a European dream. Based on their commitment to a united and peaceful Europe, the exhibition examines at the same time the renewed threats.
For this look at European utopias and disenchantments, the exhibition starts off by recalling the powerlessness and by looking back on the history of violence of the 20th century, on wars, genocides, and civil wars in Europe and under the banner of European colonialism.
The European project has seen itself also as a comprehensive peace project not only in view of the almost inconceivable sacrifices the boundless violence of Europe’s “civilized” societies had exacted. Nowadays, the EU increasingly emerges as a defensive alliance, limited to security- and economic interests. Is Europe, therefore, doomed to fail?
Reservation required:
T +43(0)5576 73989 | E-Mail: office@jm-hohenems.at
If the booking is heavy, the tour will be conducted twice in a row.
An online event of the Jewish Museum Hohenems and the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna, in the series Borders and Identities and in the program of the exhibition The Last Europeans.
Conflicts about the future of Europe have always been linked to disputes about the role of European Jews. Their emancipation was seen as a test case of the liberal hopes of the 19th century, and their cross-border cosmopolitanism as a precursor of European unification – or as a scapegoat for nationalist ideologies. Today, the state of Israel seems to symbolically take its place – admittedly under the opposite sign, as the favorite child of right-wing populist and nationalist politicians. Avraham Burg has already crossed many borders in his life. After his political career, Avraham Burg is engaged in publishing and in various political initiatives for an ethnically and religiously neutral state of its citizens, a state that would follow the ideals of the European Union. While these ideals are admittedly coming under increasing pressure in contemporary Europe. In a recent interview with the newspaper Haaretz, he explained why he no longer wants to carry the entry “Jewish” as a “nationality” in the Israeli civil registry.
Avraham Burg, born in Jerusalem in 1955, is an Israeli author and former high-ranking politician. His Dresden-born father, Josef Burg, was a rabbi, leader of the National Religious, and minister in twenty-one Israeli governments. Avraham Burg, on the other hand, linked his political involvement with the Peace Now movement and the Labor Party. Between 1995 and 1999, he was chairman of the World Zionist Organization, then president of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, for four years. In 2004, he left politics after publicly calling for Israel to choose between democracy and discrimination against the Arab minority. „The patriarch Abraham discovered God outside the boundaries of the Land of Israel, the tribes became a people outside the Land of Israel, the Torah was given outside the Land of Israel, and the Babylonian Talmud, which is more important than the Jerusalem Talmud, was written outside the Land of Israel, the past 2,000 years, which shaped the Judaism of this generation, happened outside Israel. The present Jewish people was not born in Israel.”
Here you find the recording of the event (in English):
What was ‘Project Europe’ and what has become of it? And what will become of it? Has the European Union drifted apart even further in times of alarming global challenges—posed not solely by the Corona pandemic—instead of moving closer together? Are national interests increasingly pitted against European solutions?
Against the background of these questions, the Jewish Museum Hohenems looks at Jewish individuals who in the face of Europe’s devastations and the attempted annihilation of the European Jews in the 20th century transcended national and cultural borders, demanded anew the universal application of human rights, and vigorously pursued a European dream. Based on their commitment to a united and peaceful Europe, the exhibition examines at the same time the renewed threats.
For this look at European utopias and disenchantments, the exhibition starts off by recalling the powerlessness and by looking back on the history of violence of the 20th century, on wars, genocides, and civil wars in Europe and under the banner of European colonialism.
The European project has seen itself also as a comprehensive peace project not only in view of the almost inconceivable sacrifices the boundless violence of Europe’s “civilized” societies had exacted. Nowadays, the EU increasingly emerges as a defensive alliance, limited to security- and economic interests. Is Europe, therefore, doomed to fail?
Reservation required:
T +43(0)5576 73989 | E-Mail: office@jm-hohenems.at
If the booking is heavy, the tour will be conducted twice in a row.
Reading and conversation with Omri Boehm (New York/Berlin)
Photo: Neda Navaee
There is a blatant contradiction between a Jewish state and a liberal democracy, says the Israeli philosopher Omri Boehm. For a Jew is whoever is “of Jewish descent” – or religiously converted.
In a major essay, he sketches the vision of an ethnically neutral state that overcomes its nationalist founding myth and thus finally has a future.
Israel has changed dramatically in the last two decades: While religious Zionism is becoming increasingly popular, the left is lacking convincing ideas and concepts. The two-state solution is widely considered to have failed. In view of this disaster, Omri Boehm argues for a rethink of Israel’s statehood: Only the equal rights of all citizens can end the conflict between Jews and Arabs. The Jewish state and its occupied territories must become a federal, binational republic. Such a policy is not anti-Zionist; on the contrary, it lays the foundation for a modern and liberal Zionism.
Omri Boehm, born in 1979 in Haifa, studied in Tel Aviv and served in the Israeli secret service Shin Bet. He received his doctorate at Yale with a dissertation on “Kant’s Critique of Spinoza.” Today he teaches as professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He is an Israeli and German citizen, has conducted research in Munich and Berlin, and writes about Israeli politics in Haaretz, Die Zeit, and The New York Times.
The Book
Israel – eine Utopie
Propyläen Verlag, Berlin 2020
Gebunden, 256 Seiten, € 20,60
ISBN 978-3-549-10007-3
LOCATION Salomon Sulzer Saal
Schweizer Str. 21, 6845 Hohenems
Reservation required: T +43(0)5576 73989 | E-Mail: office@jm-hohenems.at
No other topic has influenced European politics in recent years as much as the debate on refugees, asylum and migration. The discussion is dominated by buzzwords, false assertions of facts and sham solutions.
In his book, Gerald Knaus explains what it is really about and shows that humane borders are possible. The migration expert, whose analyses have inspired governments throughout Europe, explains which fundamental problems we would have to solve and how abstract principles can be turned into implementable policies capable of winning a majority. He also explains why this is difficult for many societies and why even many citizens struggle with contradictory emotions – here empathy, there fear of losing control – and how a policy that takes facts and emotions seriously becomes possible.
Gerald Knaus is founding director of the European Stability Initiative (ESI) think tank. Governments and institutions in Europe listen to him when it comes to questions of flight, migration and human rights. He studied philosophy, politics and international relations in Oxford, Brussels and Bologna, is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and was Associate Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University Kennedy School of Governance in the USA for five years. Gerald Knaus now lives in Berlin.
“Gerald Knaus would have the solution.” The Tagesspiegel “Can this man save the EU-Turkey migration agreement?” Foreign Policy
The Book:
Welche Grenzen brauchen wir?
Zwischen Empathie und Angst – Flucht, Migration und die Zukunft von Asyl
Piper Verlag, Klappenbroschur, 336 Seiten, € 18,-
EAN 978-3-492-05988-6
Location Salomon Sulzer Saal
Schweizer Str. 21, 6845 Hohenems
Reservation required: T +43(0)5576 73989 | E-Mail: office@jm-hohenems.at
Film screening, followed by a talk with Yves Kugelmann (Zurich)
A film by Christoph Weinert, Germany, 2019, 102 min. With Alice Brauner and Yves Kugelmann
in Marseille
in Venice
in Strasbourg
in Berlin
Agnes Heller
JEWISH IN EUROPE, conceived as a road movie, does away with old myths and shows a self-confident, heterogeneous and quarrelsome Jewish community. Together with director Christoph Weinert, German film producer Alice Brauner and Swiss publicist Yves Kugelmann, both Jews themselves, have embarked on a journey through Europe. From Tangier via Marseille and Strasbourg to Frankfurt, and from Berlin via Warsaw, their path also leads them to Budapest, where they met the Hungarian Jewish philosopher Ágnes Heller for a final conversation shortly before her death. The journey on the traces between burdened history, lived tradition and challenging modernity finally ends in the former Jewish Ghetto of Venice.
The film attempts to break down existing stereotypes and show Jewish everyday life between majority and minority societies unfiltered. It takes stock of how Jews in Europe think and live today. How much does the media image of assaults and attacks correspond to the everyday reality of Jewish people? How much does the Holocaust trauma determine their lives – and who is actually Jewish? A journey full of surprises.
Location Salomon Sulzer Saal
Schweizer Str. 21, 6845 Hohenems
Reservation required: T +43(0)5576 73989 | E-Mail: office@jm-hohenems.at
Brian Klug
Michael Miller
Hannes Sulzenbacher, born 1968 in Innsbruck, is co-director of QWIEN – Center for Queer History (Vienna) and freelance exhibition curator. Since 2014 he has been head of the scientific-curatorial team of the new installation of the Austrian exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
Diana Pinto 
