Jewish Museum Hohenems
Contact details
Villa Heimann-RosenthalSchweizer Straße 5
6845 Hohenems
Austria
Tel: +43 (0)5576 739890
Email: office@jm-hohenems.at
https://http://www.jm-hohenems.at/en/
Contact person
Gerlinde Fritz
Tel: +43 (0)5576 739890
Email: office@jm-hohenems.at
Head of Department/Director
Director, Dr. Hanno Loewy
Tel: +43 (0)5576 7398912
Email: loewy@jm-hohenems.at
Activites
The Jewish Museum of Hohenems offers a wide range of public talks as well as the annual European Summer University for Jewish Studies. 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 Centre 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.The Summer University for Jewish Studies Hohenems is open to students of all disciplines. Students of Jewish Studies at the participating universities—Munich, Basel, Salzburg, Vienna, Bamberg, and Zurich—will be granted preferential admission.
Main research activities
The Jewish Museum of Hohenems remembers the
Jewish community of Hohenems and its various
contributions to the development of Vorarlberg and the surrounding regions of the Alps. It tells a story about the Diaspora, and it confronts contemporary questions of Jewish life and culture in Europe, questions of living together and of migration. The museum also deals with the end of the community of Hohenems, the regional Nazi history, the expulsion or deportation of the last members of the community, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust.
Along with these fragmented lines of regional and global history, it is also devoted to the people, their
experiences and their histories. And it maintains a close relationship to the descendants of Jewish families from Hohenems around the world. The museum offers annually changing exhibitions and an extensive program of events.
There is a Jewish Studies library
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