From the Middle Ages, the Jewish community in Vienna was one of Europe's largest. This 3-hour Jewish Vienna tour explores the tumultuous experiences of Vienna’s Jewish citizens through expulsion, genocide, and revival. Your historian guide will help you to discover the influential contributions of past intellectual and cultural icons and the fragile revitalization of Vienna’s Jewish community taking place today.
We begin outside the Jewish City Temple before winding through the second district to the destroyed Leopoldstädter Temple. Visiting the Nestroyhof Theater with its stunning Art Nouveau exterior, once home to Yiddish-speaking ensembles, we reflect on brilliant leaders of Vienna’s intellectual, political, and economic spheres from the Jewish community: Sigmund Freud, Theodor Herzl, Karl Krauss, Franz Werfel, and Gustav Mahler. Learning of the victims and survivors of Nazi genocide, we visit destroyed Ashkenazi and Sephardic synagogues and the Judenplatz Holocaust memorial.
Posted By : wmhoodis
Jan was very engaging and gave a good overview of the history of Vienna and the Jewish perspective. The walking route was very manageable.
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Posted On : 2024-06-17 03:25:33 
Posted By : Europe B
Annellie was a terrific guide who used stories and her knowledge of Jewish Vienna to make it alive for us. Very impressed.
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Posted On : 2023-10-20 01:43:11
Posted By : Cristie S
Our guide Annalee was outstanding. Super knowledgeable and flexible as to what we we’re interested in.
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Posted On : 2023-07-03 15:13:04
Posted By : Nancy_L
Annalise was very knowledgeable about Jewish history in Vienna. She portrays the long story of Jews in Vienna, both good and bad. She was fun for adults, and helpful finding a good restaurant for after our tour. Definitely recommend her tour.
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Posted On : 2023-06-05 04:18:11 
Posted By : Jan_A
The guide was awesome had so much knowledge and information to to share. It was not what we expected, because she shared more about the Jewish people and their way of life through history. The tour guide was the best we have ever had. Thank you, Annelie!
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Posted On : 2023-05-27 02:07:35
Posted By : DrStanleyJ_G
Although we were expecting a small group, we were the only couple on the tour with Annilie. She met us in front of the.Stattemple. And for 3 1/2 hours she took us through Jewish Vienna an an excellent and comprehensive tour. She provided us with the history and the current situation as well. As a history of the persecution the Jews faced from medieval times, and through the holocaust. As well as life for the Jews in Vienna now. We took the underground to the theater district and ended the tour at a beautiful coffee house. She was an excellent guide, and we would highly recommend taking this tour.
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Posted On : 2023-04-19 06:15:13
Posted By : 867hannahz
We had a wonderful time with our tour guide Annelie. We were panic when realizing that our tour was in the morning vs the afternoon, she adapted us to pick us up at a tube station near us, which gave us such as smooth flow into the tour with her. She took us to several places no other tour guide will even have any idea where they are. She is professional and kind, very knowledgeable and detailed. This trip opened doors for our future detailed tours we would like to have such as the film industry of Vienna.
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Posted On : 2023-03-23 11:51:36
Posted By : Kim M
Our guide, Annelie, was friendly and welcoming, and very knowledgeable and passionate about the subject - we really enjoyed the tour. At the start of the tour, she outlined her proposed itinerary and checked with us to make sure it fit with our interests. She focused on both medieval history and 20th century times, and highlighted the contributions of many members of the Jewish community to improving life in Vienna and beyond. She showed us several places that did not seem accessible to the general public, and made the tour even more interesting with stories and additional pictures and small video clips. The time flew by and we enjoyed visiting several different areas of the city (traveling by public transit). I would definitely recommend Annelie as a guide for this tour or other historical tours of Vienna.
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Posted On : 2022-12-01 09:03:30
Posted By : Michael_T
Our guide Was exceptionally well versed in the history of the Jewish community throughout its stay in Vienna. A real wealth of knowledge.
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Posted On : 2022-09-23 03:41:16
Posted By : nhoss
My husband and I enjoyed our tour with Annelie very much. We were a few minutes late because of the metro unexpectedly stopping however Annelie called us on our cell phone and kindly assured us that she would wait for us. She is very knowledgeable and pleasant and accommodating. we learned many things about the early Jewish community and wonderful stories about many outstanding citizens… it was refreshing to learn these background stories of real lives and events that took place long before World War II. our walk took us places that we would not normally even know about without Annelie guiding us (we did not go in museums but you can always go back later if you want to on your own, which we did, One ticket will get you into both) Also, I needed to run into a drugstore to buy a mask (which is important to wear on the metro) and Annelie had a story about the building I went into and the family that it housed back in the day… we could never know any of these things on our own so I highly recommend this tour. Annelie also recommended a wonderful place for lunch which we enjoyed very much. PS Thank you Annelie for everything… It was a pleasure getting to meet you and spending our morning with you and having you open up a new adventure for us!
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Posted On : 2022-08-28 14:02:29
