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The Leon Zelman Prize …

… for Dialogue and Understanding

The prize

Based on an idea of City Councilor for Culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, the prize is awarded once each year in memory of Leon Zelman and his work as the longstanding director of the Jewish Welcome Service and publisher of the periodical The Jewish Echo.

The aim

To award projects and organizations in the spirit of Leon Zelman and the Jewish Welcome Service. The prize money is intended to contribute to the continuation of the respective project/initiative.

The Jewish Welcome Service is an essential link and often also the point of contact for the concerns and projects of many organizations and initiatives.

Criteria for awarding the prize

Projects and organizations that work actively in the spirit of Leon Zelman for remembrance, its exploration and “the fight against forgetting and for the dialog between present-day Austria and the survivors of National Socialist persecution, and in particular their descendents, as the basis for a shared future” (see also text on memorial plaque for Leon Zelman at Palais Epstein). This includes above all a commitment to civil society; standing up against anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia; education and youth work as well as projects that promote intercultural dialog.

Prize donated by:

City of Vienna

Cash prize:

€ 5.000,-

 The jury

  • Dr. Sophie Lillie, art and contemporary historian
  • Martina Maschke, BMB (Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, The Arts and Culture); head of department for International Bilateral Affairs – Education; chairwoman of the association www.erinnern.at
  • PD Mag.a Dr.in Heidemarie Uhl, Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Ari Rath (1925 – 2017), publicist; former publisher and editor in chief of the Jerusalem Post
  • Peter Schwarz, Member of the Board of the Jewish Welcome Service; managing director of the ESRA association (psychosocial center for people persecuted under National Socialism)
  • Armin Thurnher, publisher and editor in chief of “Der Falter”; author of the autobiography “Leon Zelman. After Survial”

Chair/Administration
Susanne Trauneck, Secretary General of the Jewish Welcome Service

We thank for the support of STRABAG AG
Leon Zelman with young students
Leon Zelman, longstanding head of the Jewish Welcome Service and publisher of the periodical The Jewish Echo, visited schools as a witness of the times and reported …
4 persons at the presentation of the Zelman Prize
from left: City Councilor Michael Ludwig presents the first Leon Zelman Prize to Adalbert Wagner, Chairman of Verein GEDENKDIENST. Amongst the congratulators: Susanne Trauneck, Secretary General of the Jewish Welcome Service, and jury member Ari Rath, former publisher and editor in chief of the Jerusalem Post. (Photo: © PID/Walter Schaub-Walzer)
Andreas Mailath-Pokorny presents the Leon Zelman Prize
Councillor of Culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny (left) and Susanne Trauneck (JWS, second from left) present the Leon Zelman Prize 2014 to the school community of the Viennese G19 school. (Photo: © PID/Walter Schaub-Walzer)
Andreas Mailath-Pokorny presents the Leon Zelman Prize to Robert Streibel
Councillor of Culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny (left) presents the Leon Zelman Prize 2015 to Robert Streibel, Director of the Vienna Adult Education Center Hietzing. (Photo: © PID/Walter Schaub-Walzer)
Andreas Mailath-Pokorny presents the Leon Zelman Prize to Gabriele Anderl
Councillor of Culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny (left) presents the Leon Zelman Prize 2016 to the historian and journalist Gabriele Anderl. (Foto: © PID/Walter Schaub-Walzer)
District Councilor Marcus Schober presented the Leon Zelman Prize for Dialog and Understanding to the Viennese initiative Shalom Alaikum
Leon Zelman Prize for Dialogue and Understanding 2017 to the Viennese initiative Shalom Alaikum, © PID / Walter Schaub-Walzer
Awarding of the Leon Zelman Prize to Uli Jürgens
Awarding of the Leon Zelman Prize to Uli Jürgens (c) W. Schaub-Walzer/PID

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