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A fence surrounds the the statue of Karl Lueger in Vienna, Austria on October 6, 2020(Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images)

Vienna municipality moves to protect statue of former mayor who accused Jews of ‘terrorism’

Adolf Hitler wrote approvingly of Karl Lueger, whose statue in the Austrian capital has been a repeated target of graffiti calling for its removal.

By Cnaan Liphshiz October 8, 2020 9:46 am

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Sebastian Kurz

Austria to triple its spending on Jewish community security

The funding follows a high-profile anti-Semitic assault in the city of Graz.

September 11, 2020 10:33 am

Austria breaks ground for Holocaust memorial in Vienna

The names of 64,000 Austrian Jews killed by the Nazis will be engraved on the park memorial’s stone slabs.

June 23, 2020 2:20 pm

Pedestrians walking outside the Jewish Museum of Munich on March 24, 2007. (Wikimedia Commons/Maximilian Dörrbecker)

Jewish museums in Munich and Vienna announce plans to reopen this month

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 7, 2020 4:06 pm

George Soros

Soros moves his university from Budapest to new campus in Vienna

By Marcy Oster November 17, 2019 1:31 pm

Photos of Holocaust survivors exhibited on Vienna street vandalized again

By Marcy Oster May 27, 2019 11:53 am

Meet Robert Adler, The Viennese Jew Who Invented the Clicker

By Abby Sher

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Meet Vicki Baum, 19th-Century Novelist & Boxer

By Zachary Solomon

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Iran nuclear talks extended again

July 7, 2015 9:19 am

The Chinese Righteous Among the Austrian Nation

The Chinese Righteous Amid the Austrian Nation

By Zachary Solomon

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