Every year our program visits Eisenstadt, about 60 km south of Vienna. Our main destination there is the Jewish quarter and the Österreichisches Jüdisches Museum (Austrian Jewish Museum), ojm_eisenstadt. Eisenstadt was home to a Jewish community since the fourteenth century. The community grew considerably after the expulsion of Jews from Vienna in 1670-71, when the Esterházy, rulers of Eisenstadt, granted Viennese Jews residency in the city. Johannes Reiss transkribierer gave us many fascinating tours of the museum, of the Jewish quarter, and of the old Jewish Cemetery, in use between 1679 and 1875. For years, Johannes has been engaged in the painstaking work of documenting the original gravestones, and transcribing the inscriptions in order to identify who was buried in a particular grave. The location and occupants of particular graves are uploaded in the internet, so that descendants can visit the graves of their ancestors. #ucdavis student Nastassya Ferns psychicktv interviewed Johannes about his work in 2019. Learn more about Johannes’ project on his website: https://der-transkribierer.at/. Read Nastassya’s blog here: https://austriaauslander.blogspot.com/
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