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Update to Jewish Vienna Brochure For many years now, the Jewish Welcome Service, in co-operation with the City of Vienna's Press and Information Services, has published a service brochure containing information about Jewish organizations in Vienna and Austria and about their activities. Especially in view of the upcoming European Maccabi Games in Vienna (5–13 July), the latest 2011 edition has been revised with the assistance of both the Vienna Tourist Board and the city's Press and Information Services. Download the brochure here (PDF) ADL´s Young Leadership to Austria: 18–27 September 2011 In co-operation with ADL Chicago and the Austrian Consulate General in Chicago, the Jewish Welcome Service will be inviting about 15–20 young adults aged 25–30 for a nine-day trip to Vienna and Austria from 18–27 September. The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913, making it one of the oldest human rights organizations in the USA. The organization is involved in the fight against anti-Semitism and racism as well as in interreligious dialogue. In co-operation with ADL Chicago, the Jewish Welcome Service will put together and implement a comprehensive programme that will include meetings and discussions with opinion leaders, politicians from various parties, grass-roots organizations and local district initiatives. The themes that will be dealt with during their stay could include:
UIAFED: 23– 31 May 2011 The Jewish Welcome Service and the United Israel Appeal Federations of Canada (UIAFED) has invited some 15 students aged 18–22 to visit Vienna for nine days from 23–31 May. The programme is being organized together with National Jewish Campus Life, a Jewish student organization in Toronto, and a section of UIAFED. The motto of the programme is “Celebrate Jewish Life and Culture in Vienna”. Objective of the programme: To get to know Vienna as a modern, cultivated European metropolis with an enterprising Jewish community. Prior to and during their visit to Vienna, the students will be expected to take a closer interest in European and Austrian history, with a special focus on Jewish history. The main emphasis will be on the Jewish way of life in Vienna in the present day and in the future, breaking with the concept of merely regarding Europe as a huge Jewish cemetery after the Shoah. This will be achieved by a varied cultural and sightseeing programme, meetings with personalities from the Jewish community, opinion leaders, lectures and discussions focusing on science and the arts, official receptions, excursions and outings in Vienna and environs. City quarter and district initiatives: Living history projects in schools In the year 2011 the Jewish Welcome Service will continue to support city quarter and district initiatives to the best of its ability, particularly by inviting contemporary witnesses. Such initiatives include “Stones of Remembrance”, Herklotzgasse 21 and Servitengasse 1938, as well as individual schools projects such as “Re-educated on 28 April 1938”, the annual commemoration by the Vienna's Academic Secondary School. www.herklotzgasse21 www.servitengasse1938.at www.steinedererinnerung.net 2011 Invitation Programme for exiled Austrian Jews
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The Jewish Welcome Service and the United Israel Appeal Federations of Canada (UIAFED) has invited some 15 students to visit Vienna from 23–31 May.
Keys Against Forgetting - a memorial symbol created by the Servitengasse 1938 project. (Photo: © Projekt Servitengasse 1938)
2010 invitation programme for exiled Austrian Jews. (Photo: © Ray Krieser / JWS archive)
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