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From the Archives | Unfinished Business

Gabriel Alexander

A portrait Gustav Klimt failed to complete before his death has left a trail across the art world, but how many know the story of the woman portrayed? Her secrets have long lain buried in...

20th centuryArtAustrian JewsColumnsFrom the ArchivesIssue 62 | September 2022ViennaWomen

From the Archives | Behind the Wheel

Gabriel Alexander

Much as Nazi Vienna couldn’t stand it, the gasoline-powered car was invented by a Jewish-born Austrian engineer. Siegfried Marcus has been all but forgotten, however, owing largely to his lack of business acumen Gabriel Alexander...

20th centuryColumnsIssue 65 | June 2023ScientistsVienna

Herzl’s Psychodrama

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Internal Eruption Surprisingly, prior to October 1894, even Theodor Herzl didn’t think a Jewish state was possible. On October 17, reviewing a play for his longtime employer, Vienna’s Neue Freie Presse daily, Herzl slammed the...

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A Beautiful Mind – Hedy Lamarr

Yemima Hovav

Actress Hedy Lamarr may have owed her fame to ״standing still and looking stupid,״ but she was anything but. This assimilated Jewess combined aspects of her colorful past to patent something that could have torpedoed...

actorsArticlesHollywoodHolocaust dayIssue 32 | June 2016ViennaWomenWWII

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

Yemima Hovav

Hedy Lamarr at age 7 1. Hedy Lamarr׳s parents came from a bourgeois Jewish background. Her father was born in Lvov, Poland, and her mother in Budapest. Assimilation was their fast track to economic security;...

actorsArticlesIssue 32 | June 2016New YorkViennaWomenWWII

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From the Archives | Unfinished Business

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9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

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