Organizations

The Israelitischen Kultusgemeinden (Organization of Jewish Communities) is the primary communal organization in Austria. All Jews active in the community pay a percentage of their annual income tax to the community to subsidize its services. The Jewish community helps fund an old age home, the Jewish day school, kindergartens, the Austrian Jewish Students Union, Jewish student organizations and several Zionist youth groups - B’nai Brith, B’nei Akiva, Hashomer Hatzair, Jewish publications, and it maintains the Jewish cemeteries.

There is also a separate Sephardi federation that operates independently. Vienna’s Sephardi community reestablished itself in May 1992 and has built two synagogues and a room used for festivities. The ultra-Orthodox community also operates independently; it has a separate school system and other institutions.

 

 

Bnei Akiva
Bnei Akiva is a religious Zionist youth movement.
Misrachihaus
Judenplatz 8
1010 Vienna

 

Hashomer Hatzair
Hashomer Hatzair is a Zionist youth movement.
Desider Friedmann Platz 1
1010 Vienna

 

Ya be Yad
Yad beYad is an organization of for Bucharan youth in Vienna.
Tempelgasse 7
1020 Vienna

 

Association of Jewish Youth in Austria (VJHÖ)
Währingerstrasse 24
1090 Vienna

 

Moadon
Club for 20-30 year olds.
Seitenstettengasse 4
1010 Vienna

 

 

Sections: Basketball, Fitness, Hiking, Karate, Swimming, Table Tennis and Tennis.
Rötzergasse 41
1170 Vienna

 

Sporst club Maccabi
Sections: Bridge, Chess, Golf, Squash and Soccer.
Seitenstettengasse 4
1010 Vienna

 

 

 

B'nai B'rith: Zvi Perez Chajes Lodge.
Taubstummengasse 1
1040 Vienna

 

B'nai B'rith: Maimonides Lodge
Postbox 100
1037 Vienna 

 

Caucasian Sephardi Cultural Association
Novaragasse 7
1020 Vienna

 

Yehuda Halevi Center
Haidgasse 1
1020 Vienna

 

 

Mizrachi
Judenplatz 8
1010 Vienna

Or Chadash
Liberal Jewish community
On February 22, 2004 the synagogue of the Liberal Jewish community, 'Or Chadash', opened in the Robertgasse of Leopoldstadt, a part of Vienna’s 2nd district.

Jewish Welcome Service
Founded in 1978, this non-profit organization aims to document the presence of a vibrant Jewish community after the Holocaust; its main task is international public relations work on behalf of Jewish culture in Austria. It invites thousands of Jewish Austrians driven from the country in 1938 back to Vienna. It also organizes exchange programs for young people from Israel, the US and Austria.
Prof. Dr. Leon Zelman
Stephansplatz 10
1010 Vienna

 

Sephardi Synagogue and Community Center (Lauder)
Members of the Sephardi community include Jews from the Soviet republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Approximately 5,000 Jews have come to Vienna over the last two decades. Vienna’s Sephardi community reestablished itself in May 1992 and has built two synagogues and a room used for festivities. Its activities are run by the Sephardi Federation, which is separate from the primary Jewish communal organization. In May 1992, a new synagogue and community rooms were opened at Tempelgasse 7.

Tempelgasse 7
1020 Vienna

 

Kongress Der Bucharischen Juden Wiens
Rauscherstraße 23/13, 1200 Vienna

 

Society of Georgian-Sephardi Jews in Austria
Tempelgasse 7
1020 Vienna

 

Vienna Society of Russian Jews
Haidgasse 1
1020 Vienna

 

Jewish Center Vienna
1090 Vienna, Währingerstraße,

In March 2004 a leisure and a culture meeting place was established for all youth organizations. 

 

Jüdische Seniorenclubs
Meeting place Café' Schottenring 

 

Vienna Jewish Choir
Sterngasse 2/21
1010 Vienna

 

 

 

Chevra Kadisha
Desider-Friedmann-Platz 1/25
1010 Vienna

 

Sanatorium Maimonides Center
Old Age Home, Nursing Home, Day Care and Medical Care

The Jewish community maintains an elderly citizens' home with a geriatric department. This Center is also a meeting place for  elderly community members who still live in their own homes.

Bauernfeldgasse 4
1190 Vienna

Anne Kohn-Feuermann-Day Care Center
In the Anne Kohn-Feuermann Day Center, senior citizens can spend several days or weeks. The Day Center provides kosher meals for senior citizens and organizes activities such as visits to museums, excursions, gymnastics, English club.
Bauenfeldgasse 4
1190 Vienna

Hilfe und Hoffnung
A Jewish support organization. 
Schüttelstrasse 19A/3

1020 Vienna

 

Seitenstettengasse 4
1010 Vienna

 

 

 

Hadassah
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization. Primary charitable, its focus is healthcare, education and youth institutions.

 

WIZO
WIZO, the Women's International Zionist Organization. Deals with the advancement of the status of women, welfare and Jewish education.

 

Verein religiöser FrauenF
Women's religious organization

Jüdische Frauenclubs
Jüdisches Frauennetzwerk - Networking
Café Zartl, Rasumofskygasse 7

1030 Vienna

 

 

 

for psychosocial care for the survivors of the Holocaust.
 
Lustkandlgasse 4
1090 Vienna

 

International Center for Holocaust remembrance, the defense of human rights and the Jewish people. The Center carries on the continuing fight against anti-Semitism and pursues an active agenda of related contemporary issues. Established by Simon Wiesenthal.

Salztorgasse 6
1010 Vienna

 

The Esra Center founded in 1984 in cooperation between the social department of the IKG (Jewish community organization) and the City of Vienna. Esra provides  medical, therapeutic and social work support for survivors of the Holocaust and their relatives. The Center also provides information and counselling for  Jews living in Vienna and for Jewish immigrants, especially from Eastern European countries.

Tempelgasse 5
1020 Vienna

 

In July 1999, the Federation of Jewish Communities in Austria, together with the Committee for Jewish Claims on Austria, the Council of Jews from Austria in Israel and the American Council for Equal Compensation of Nazi Victims from Austria, established the Holocaust Victims and Support Center (HVISC) for Jewish Holocaust survivors in and from Austria. The HVISC documents individual cases of Nazi persecution and Holocaust-era assets in order to build a case? for their future restitution or compensation.
The Holocaust Victims Information and Support Center is a political body representing Jewish Nazi victims and their heirs. First and foremost, the HVISC seeks to achieve justice for Holocaust survivors finally and without delay.

Desider Friedmann-Platz 1
1010 Vienna, Austria
Tel. 43-1-53104201
Fax. 43-1-53104219

 

Nationalfonds der Republik Österreich für Opfer des Nationalsozialismus
(National Fund of the Austrian Republic for Victims of Nazism)

The Austrian government has set up a fund to assist Holocaust victims from Austria who are in need. The main task of the Nationalfonds is to provide financial support for victims of National Socialism as quickly, flexibly and un-bureaucratically as possible. It was established in 1995, the 50th anniversary of the Second Republic, in order to "remember all the immense wrong inflicted on millions of human beings by Nazism as well as the fact that Austrians, too, were involved in these crimes." Approximately 20,000 former Austrians all over the world, most of them Jewish, have received payments from the Nationalfonds.

Dr. Karl-Renner-Ring 3
1017 Vienna
Tel. 43-1-4081263/64
Fax. 43-1-4080389

 

 

 

Seitenstettengasse 4
1010 Vienna
Tel. 43-1-5350431-82
Fax 43-1-5355046
 

 

Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue

 

Centropa
Centropa is the signature project of the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation.
A nonprofit organization based in Vienna, Austria, the Centropa group is headed by a team of historians, educators, photographers, and other artists and scholars. Centropa has created the first online library of Jewish family memories - in words and images. Centropa organization also has a cultural magazine; there are book reviews, recipes, feature articles, short stories and historical reports. Other Centropa projects include an education scheme that will connect Jewish high school students from America to their European history; a publishing program involving  books and brochures, and later  documentary films on Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe.

 

Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes
The Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance documents the crimes of National Socialism and includes important materials about right extremist and racist developments in Austria. The Documentation Archive, however, is not affiliated with the Documentation Center of Simon Wiesenthal.
Wipplingerstraße 6-8
1010 Vienna
Telefon: 1-53436/90319
Fax: 1-53436/9990319

 

 

ADL — Anti Defamation League
Spiegelgasse 21/Suite 14
1010 Vienna

 

Aktion Gegen Den Antisemitismus Österreich
Action agenst anti-Semitism in Austria
c/o DÖW, Altes Rathaus
Wipplinger Str. 6-8
1010 Vienna

 

Austrian Dialogue Forum for Israel
The Austrian Dialogue Forum for Israel consists of an active circle of interested and supporting individuals, who meet for discussions and planning projects emphasizing relations between  Austrian and  Israeli society. The Dialogue Forum strives for a critical and reflective look at Israel and on  Austrian-Israeli relations on the cultural and socio-political levels. Especially focusing on the image of Israel, which is interspersed with many stereotypes in the minds of the Austrian public and in  Austrian society, is a central matter of our concern.
Siccardsburggasse 12
1100 Vienna

 

Zionistische Föderation in Österreich (ZFÖ)
Desider Friedmannplatz 1
1010 Vienna

 

 

 

The only synagogue to survive the Shoah is the Stadttempel (built 1826), where the community offices and the Chief Rabbinate are located.
The synagogue that serviced the Orthodox congregation was damaged during the war and reopened in 1963 after extensive renovations. In 1982 the synagogue was attacked by terrorists. 
A number of synagogues and prayer houses catering to various Chassidic groups and other congregations  function on a regular basis in Vienna.
"Stadttempel" (Central Synagogue)
Chief Rabbi Paul Chaim Eisenberg

Seitenstettengasse 4
1010 Vienna
Tel. 01/53 104 - 111 DW

Morning prayer:
Monday - Friday 7 a.m.,
Sunday 8 a.m., Shabbat 9 a.m.
Daily Minchah- and Ma´ariv-Prayer

 

Bauernfeldgasse 4
1190 Vienna
For prayer schedule call 43-1-368 16 55

 

Castellezgasse 35
1020 Vienna

Morning Prayer: daily at 8 am. during school term.

 

Agudas Israel
Chief Rabbi David L. Grünfeld

Grünangergasse 1
1010 Vienna
Tel. 01/212 00 94

Tempelgasse 3
1020 Vienna
Tel. 01/512 83 31

 

Ohel Moshe
Chief Rabbi Abraham Y. Schwartz

Lilienbrunngasse 19

1020 Vienna
Tel. 01/216 88 64

 

Two synagogues in the Sephardi Center
Bucharan Community: Rabbi Yizchak Niazov
Georgian Community: Rabbi Avraham Michalshvili

Tempelgasse 7
1020 Vienna
Tel. 01/214 30 97 (Secretary)
Tel. 01/216 57 80 (Rabbi)

 

Desider Friedmann-Platz 1
1010 Vienna

Große Mohrengasse 19
1020 Vienna

 

The Yeshiva of Vienna
Religious Supervision: Chief Rabbi Chayim Stern

Große Mohrengasse 19

1020 Vienna
Tel. 01/216 06 79

 

Mizrachi
Rabbi Josef Pardes

Rabensteig 3
1010 Vienna
Tel. 01/535 41 53

Chabad-Lubavitch
Rabbi Jacob Biderman

Rabbiner-Schneerson-Platz 1
1020 Vienna
Tel.: 01/334 18 18-0

 

Grünentorgasse
1090 Vienna

 

Riemergasse 9

1010 Vienna

 

Bet HaMidrash Torah Etz Chayim
Rabbi Michael Pressburger

Große Schiffgasse 8

1020 Vienna
Tel. 01/216 36 99

 

Lorbeergasse 9
1030 Vienna

 

Währinger Gürtel 18-20

1090 Vienna

 

Or Chadash
On February 22, 2004 the synagogue of the Liberal Jewish community, Or Chadash, was established in  Robertgasse, Leopoldstadt, a part of Vienna’s 2nd district.