• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Jewish Welcome Service Vienna

Sponsored by the City of Vienna

  • English
  • Deutsch
  • Home
  • Contact
  • Imprint
  • About us
    • Members of the Board
    • Patrons & Sponsors
    • Retrospective 1980-1993
    • Retrospective 1994-2012
    • Retrospective 2013-2016
    • Retrospective 2017-2019
    • Retrospective 2020
  • News
    • Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter
    • Newsletter archive
  • Services
    • Downloads
    • Links
  • Press
  • Invitation Programme
  • Leon Zelman Prize
    • Leon Zelman OBM
  • Public Projects

High-ranking delegation of the American Jewish Committee in Vienna

4. December 2017

Once again, the Jewish Welcome Service (JWS) hosted a delegation of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) from November 6 to 12. The JWS organized a varied program in cooperation with AJC NY and the Austrian Consulate General. The aim of the visit was to give an impression of present-day Austria – from politics to business and culture to modern Jewish life.

The American Jewish Committee delegation (AJC) as guest in Vienna with Michael Schmidt, AJC director New York (front and center), photo: Susanne Trauneck/JWS
The American Jewish Committee delegation (AJC) as guest in Vienna with Michael Schmidt, AJC director New York (front and center), photo: Susanne Trauneck/JWS

The program includes gatherings and in-depth discussions with representatives of the city of Vienna on current political questions and the culture of remembrance and commemoration. Other program features: a meeting with Austrian foreign ministry diplomats, a guided tour of the Jewish Museum Vienna, a visit to the IKG campus, and a gathering with IKG Vienna representatives. The delegation of AJC New York and Chicago also visited the Mauthausen Memorial and Castle Hartheim and met the journalist and holocaust survivor Karl Pfeifer. For two of the participants, this visit was also an attempt to trace their family: their parents and grandparents were also from Vienna and were able to flee Vienna in 1938.

The American Jewish Committee is the oldest Jewish organization in the USA and was founded in 1906. The Jewish Welcome Service previously hosted delegations of AJC and AJC ACCESS (a program for young professionals) in 2012, 2013 and 2015.

American Jewish Committee (AJC) delegation as guest in Vienna, photo: Susanne Trauneck/JWS
American Jewish Committee (AJC) delegation as guest in Vienna, photo: Susanne Trauneck/JWS
City Councilor for Culture Mailath-Pokorny (2nd from the right.) with AJC representatives Robert Altschuler, Eli Wald and Bob Ernst (from left to right.), photo: Susanne Trauneck/JWS
City Councilor for Culture Mailath-Pokorny (2nd from the right.) with AJC representatives Robert Altschuler, Eli Wald and Bob Ernst (from left to right.), photo: Susanne Trauneck/JWS
American Jewish Committee (AJC) delegation in front of the Wiener Rathaus (Vienna City Hall), photo: Susanne Trauneck/JWS
American Jewish Committee (AJC) delegation in front of the Wiener Rathaus (Vienna City Hall), photo: Susanne Trauneck/JWS

Primary Sidebar

Latest News

  • Ralph and Diane Dressler experience family history on a trip to Vienna
  • Vienna, city of dreams
  • Interview Lore SEGAL
  • With Conflicting Emotions_EJewishPhilantrophy
  • Jewish News from Austria

Follow us

Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube

Footer

Quicklinks

  • Order our Newsletter
  • News
  • Invitation Programme
  • Leon Zelman Prize
  • Patrons & Sponsors
  • Members of the Board

Supporters

wienholding - a company of the City of Vienna Wien

All Patrons & Sponsors

Contact

Judenplatz 8 / 8
A-1010 Vienna

Tel. +43 1 535 04 31-1590
E-Mail: office@jewish-welcome.at

Privacy Policy
Accessibility

© 2021 · Jewish Welcome Service Vienna