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    • Daily Life
      • The Jewish Street
      • The Jewish House
      • Dress
      • Food
      • Family
      • Leisure
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      • Educated Women
      • Legal Status
    • Cultural Life
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      • Tombstones
      • The Medieval Synagogue in Vienna
  • Modern Era
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      • Until 1867
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Jewish Communities of Austria
  • Middle Ages
    • Communities
    • Austria in the Middle Ages
    • The Beginning of the Jewish Life
    • Legal Status
    • Persecution
    • Among the Nations
    • Economic Life
      • Occupations
      • Physicians
    • Daily Life
      • The Jewish Street
      • The Jewish House
      • Dress
      • Food
      • Family
      • Leisure
    • Women
      • Occupations
      • Educated Women
      • Legal Status
    • Cultural Life
    • Archeological Findings
      • Tombstones
      • The Medieval Synagogue in Vienna
  • Modern Era
    • Communities
    • Synagogues
    • Demography
    • History
      • Until 1867
      • After 1867
    • Anti-Semitism
    • Emigration and Diaspora
      • Emigration from Austria
      • Diaspora of Austrian Jews
    • Holocaust
      • Deportations
  • Contemporary Era
    • Communities
    • Synagogues
    • Israel
    • Diaspora
    • Austria-Israel
  • Personalities
  • Timeline
    • A Timeline of Jewish Life in Austria
    • 1923 – A Year in Vienna
  • Vienna
    • My Vienna
    • Middle Ages
    • Early Modern Era
    • Modern Times
    • Contemporary Era
      • History
      • Organizations
      • Demography
      • Educational Institutions
      • Culture
      • Immigration and Emigration
      • Anti-Semitism
      • Cemeteries
    • Population
      • Ostjuden
      • Poverty
    • Synagogues
      • List of Synagogues
      • Stadttempel
    • Education
    • Culture
      • Literature
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  • Middle Ages
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    • Austria in the Middle Ages
    • The Beginning of the Jewish Life
    • Legal Status
    • Persecution
    • Among the Nations
    • Economic Life
      • Occupations
      • Physicians
    • Daily Life
      • The Jewish Street
      • The Jewish House
      • Dress
      • Food
      • Family
      • Leisure
    • Women
      • Occupations
      • Educated Women
      • Legal Status
    • Cultural Life
    • Archeological Findings
      • Tombstones
      • The Medieval Synagogue in Vienna
  • Modern Era
    • Communities
    • Synagogues
    • Demography
    • History
      • Until 1867
      • After 1867
    • Anti-Semitism
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      • Emigration from Austria
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    • Holocaust
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  • Contemporary Era
    • Communities
    • Synagogues
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  • Personalities
  • Timeline
    • A Timeline of Jewish Life in Austria
    • 1923 – A Year in Vienna
  • Vienna
    • My Vienna
    • Middle Ages
    • Early Modern Era
    • Modern Times
    • Contemporary Era
      • History
      • Organizations
      • Demography
      • Educational Institutions
      • Culture
      • Immigration and Emigration
      • Anti-Semitism
      • Cemeteries
    • Population
      • Ostjuden
      • Poverty
    • Synagogues
      • List of Synagogues
      • Stadttempel
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      • Literature
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Moedling

Jews settled in Mödling before 1350. The synagogue was in the “Judengasse” (today Elisabethstrasse 7). Jews were active as moneylenders;

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Eisenstadt

Eisenstadt is known in Jewish soyurces as Asch. Jews are mentioned in one of the earliest documents concerning Eisenstadt. In

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Radkersburg

The earliest source mentioning Jews in Radkersburg records several families. A woman by the name Seld, her husband Isaak and

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Graz

The first proof of Jewish presence in Graz is a tombstone dating from 1304, indicating that Graz had a community

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Fuerstenfeld

A promissory note from 1342 in favor of Muschl (Moses) of Fuerstenfeld indicates a Jewish settlement in Fuerstenfeld.

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Hartberg

Documentary evidence from 1429 points to the existence of a synagogue in Hartberg. The Jews of Hartberg used the cemetery

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Wiener Naustadt

A Hebrew source, the Selicha of Isaak bar Yacov, mentions the persecution of Jews in Wiener Neustadt in 1230. In

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Tulln

The Jews from Tulln had a synagogue on the site of the today’s court (Albrechtsgsasse), next to houses of Jews.

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Retz

Jews lived in Retz in the first half of the 14th century. Leb of Retz, son of Menleins of Gars,

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Krems

Several documents point to the first settlement of Jews in Krems in the 12th century. The Jew Ernustus is mentioned

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Jewish marriage contract 'Ketubbah', Krems, (1391-1392)
Jewish marriage contract 'Ketubbah', Krems, (1391-1392)

תערוכה זאת התאפשרה הודות לסיועה הנדיב של הקרן האוסטרית הלאומית למען נרדפי הנאצים
This exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the
Nationalfonds der Republik Österreich für Opfer des Nationalsozialismus
National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism

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