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Vienna Jewish History - Itai & Amitai

  • 900

    Jews' Arrival (900-1200)

  • 1190

    First Jew recorded in Vienna

  • 1190

    Rabbi Yitzchak Ben Moshe born

  • 1349

    The Black Death

  • Viennese Jews taken to ghettos

  • Jews allowed to leave the ghetto's

  • Fund started in Vienna to assist poor Jews

  • First Hebrew books printed in Vienna

  • Rabbi Yitzchak Noah Mannheimer born

  • IKG founded to represent Austrian Jews

  • Rabbi Mannheimer becomes Vienna's chief rabbi

  • First new synagogue in 200 years built

  • Sigmund Freud born

  • Theodor Herzl Born

  • Yitzchak Noah Mannheimer dies

  • Viennese Jews granted political rights

  • Jews granted religious freedoms

  • Theodor Herzl Dies

  • Vienna becomes third-largest Jewish community in Europe

  • Nazi's take over Vienna and terrorize Jews

  • Kristallnacht

  • Sigmund Freud dies

  • Jews sent to concentration camps (1941-1945)

  • "Emigration Office" set up to trick Jews into going to concentration camps

  • IKG reopened after WWII

  • 17,000 Jews briefly live in Austria due to refugees from Hungary

  • Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial founded