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Austria first became a center of Jewish learning during the 13th century. However, increasing anti-semitism led to the expulsion of the Jews in 1669. Following formal readmission in 1848, a sizable Jewish community developed once again, contributing strongly to Austrian culture. By the 1930s, some 300,000 Jews lived in Austria, most of them in Vienna. Following the Anschluss with Nazi Germany, most of the community emigrated or were killed in the Holocaust. The current Austrian Jewish population is around 10,000. The following is a list of some prominent Austrian Jews. Here German speaking Jews from the whole Habsburg Empire are listed.

Contents

Athletes

Historical figures

Politicians

Academic figures

Scientists

Psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists

Social and political scientists

Cultural figures

Film and stage

Musicians

Composers

Writers

Miscellaneous

Others

Footnotes

  1. ^ The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heros: An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and the 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars. http://books.google.com/books?id=Xcfef_d2es4C&pg=PA184&dq=%22Margarete+Adler%22+jewish&hl=en&ei=VgsPTZSEJMWAlAey9pyNDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA. Retrieved December 20, 2010. 
  2. ^ "Diving into troubled waters", Paul Kalina, The Age, November 24, 2005, Retrieved January 1, 2011
  3. ^ [1] Accessed 8 Feb 2007.
  4. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Linz, Austria, of Jewish parents"
  5. ^ [2] "Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family..." [3] "One of the most brilliant Jewish scientists to be driven from Germany by Nazi persecution..."
  6. ^ [Gresser, Moshe. Dual Allegiance: Freud As a Modern Jew. SUNY Press, 1994, p. 225]
  7. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Vienna of Jewish parentage"
  8. ^ Gay, Miriam. "Reich, Wilhelm." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Eds. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. Vol. 17. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 198-199. 22 vols. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Thomson Gale.
  9. ^ Jewish Agency for Israel; The Hugo Bergmann family Papers; both accessed 11 March 2007
  10. ^ Biography of Ernest Koliqi, Shkoder.net Authors from Shkodra: "Norbert Jokl (1877-1942), the renowned Austrian Albanologist of Jewish origin" Accessed 8 Dec 2006.
  11. ^ JInfo list of economists accessed 17 May 2007
  12. ^ Jewish Chronicle, April 27, 2001 p.34: "he believed that, as a Jew, he was capable of only derivative thought."
  13. ^ Evening Standard (London), 24/5/2004, p15: "Born less than a week apart, Adolf Hitler and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein attended the institution together. There is a haunting school photograph of the young, complex, Jewish philosopher just one row away from the most evil tyrant of the 20th century."
  14. ^ Bing - [4] Rudolf Bing... had been born a Jew in Vienna"
  15. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0592651/
  16. ^ Jewish: "Contemporary Review, June, 1999 by Anthony Paterson" [5] "the Nazi ban on his compositions - he was Jewish" Accessed 6 Nov 2006.
    born Moravia: "Composers of Classical Music" [6] "Brull, Ignaz 1846-1907 Moravia, Prossnitz - Austria, Vienna" Accessed 6 November 2006.
  17. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "he described himself as an 'unpious Jew'"
  18. ^ a b Kreisler - [7] "Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Mischa Elman... were all Jews, too"
  19. ^ School of Oriental and African Studies, Newsletter of the Jewish Music Institute "Erwin Schulhoff, a Czech Jew executed by the Nazis..." Accessed 8 Dec 2006.
  20. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, 2nd ed., art. "Schulhoff, Julius": "Born in Prague"
  21. ^ Jewish Chronicle, February 16, 2007, p.14: "he carried on as the sole Jewidh conductor of the Kulturbund"
  22. ^ Bach cantatas site "The distinguished Czech-born English conductor" Lake Placid Film Forum "Walter Susskind, a German Jew" Both accessed 4 Jan 2007
  23. ^ "The Penguin Dictionary of Musical Performers", Arthur Jacobs, ISBN 0-14-051160-1, "Under threat as a Jew from Nazi persecution, settled in Britain, 1938."
  24. ^ Korngold Society: "he got thrown out of Vienna because he was Jewish" Jessica Duchen, author of E. Korngold's biography; Korngold Society: "BRNO, where the composer was born"; accessed 6 Feb 2007.
  25. ^ ["Gustav Mahler Dies in Vienna". The New York Times. 18 May 1911. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/105027769.pdf. Retrieved 1 July 2011. PDF format]
  26. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia, "born at Prague"; accessed 3 Dec 2006.
  27. ^ British Concise Dictionary of National Biography
  28. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed., art. "Blowitz, Henri
  29. ^ Boris Brainin
  30. ^ Fritz Brainin
  31. ^ [8] "German-Jewish writers: Paul Kornfeld"
  32. ^ The Literary Encyclopedia: "Karl Kraus was born in Jicin (or Gitschin), Czechoslovakia (then a part of Austria-Hungary) into a Jewish family." Accessed 8 Feb 2007.
  33. ^ [9] "Hungarian writer Felix Salten" [10] "Hungarian/Austrian Jewish writer Felix Salten"
  34. ^ [11] "Everyone knows Walt Disney's Bambi. Far fewer know that the author of the original book was the Austrian writer, Felix Salten."
  35. ^ [12] "..Austrian novelist and journalist..."
  36. ^ Odds & Ends, June 1998
  37. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents at Vienna"
  38. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His grandfather Jacob had established the family as one of the first Jewish families to acquire great wealth and social acceptability in Bavaria ... His mother came from an Orthodox Frankfurt family and ensured that the children were properly instructed in Jewish matters ... He was a citizen of Austria-Hungary at his death."
  39. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia "born June 10, 1759, at Prostiebor, near Kladrau, in the district of Pilsen, Bohemia" accessed 8 Feb 2007
  40. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia

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