• Stadttempel Synagogue - Outside the beautiful doors of the Jewish City Temple, we consider the how the Viennese Jewish Community had to keep their synagogues barely visible from the street despite their influential role in their city’s development over centuries. Few European cities have been so closely intertwined with Jewish history as Vienna. Outside this important temple, we learn of Jewish life and increasing settlement in Vienna from the Middle Ages, despite dramatic expulsions.

We don’t visit the interior but we recommend that you contact the synagogue to arrange a tour with their own guides, open April to October, Monday to Thursday. If you take the 11:30 AM Monday synagogue tour and then enjoy your lunch, you are in the perfect place to begin our 2:00 PM tour of Jewish Vienna. If you take the 2:00 PM synagogue tour on Tuesday and Thursdays, it will fit well after our 9:30 AM Tuesday and Thursday tour with a lunch break.

• Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom - We consider the influence of Vienna’s modern Jewish community on every aspect of the city’s cultural life from outside the Nestroyhof Theater with its stunning Art Nouveau exterior, once home to Yiddish-speaking ensembles.
• Leopoldstadt - Winding through Vienna’s second district, to visit the memorial site of the destroyed Leopoldstädter Temple. Today, it is symbolized by four imposing white columns reaching up into the sky.
• Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial - Learn of the victims and survivors of Nazi genocide and the phenomenon of antisemitism in Europe while visiting the destroyed synagogues of both Ashkenazi and Sephardic congregations and the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial.

• 3-hour guided stroll through Vienna’s Jewish heritage sites
• Explore with a historian guide

• Metro fare. If you don’t have a visitor pass, our guide helps you to purchase at the first station.

The Jewish community in Vienna, dating back to the medieval period, was among the largest in Europe. On this 3-hour tour focused on Jewish Vienna, we delve into the turbulent history of Vienna’s Jewish residents, encompassing expulsion, mass murder, and rejuvenation. A knowledgeable historian will guide you in uncovering the impactful contributions of previous intellectual and cultural figures and the delicate revival of Vienna’s Jewish community occurring presently.

Our tour initiates at the Jewish City Temple, then meanders through the second district to the ruined Leopoldstädter Temple. At the Nestroyhof Theater, bedecked with its impressive Art Nouveau facade and at one point the residence of Yiddish-speaking troupes, we ponder upon prominent figures in Vienna’s intellectual, political, and economic realms hailing from the Jewish community, such as Sigmund Freud, Theodor Herzl, Karl Krauss, Franz Werfel, and Gustav Mahler. As we learn about the victims and survivors of the Nazi mass murder, our journey takes us to demolished Ashkenazi and Sephardic synagogues and the Judenplatz Holocaust memorial.

• Your tour guides are professors, doctoral students, historians, journalists, art critics, and published authors

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.