Vienna – The largest and most modern Jewish school in Europe, which can accommodate up to 600 children, opened officially Wednesday in Vienna, Austria.
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“There are schools of a similar capacity in Antwerp, Belgium, but we have the sole school of this scale which welcomes children from the kindergarten until the Matura,” the end of secondary studies in Austria, Ariel Muzicant, head of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (IKG), Vienna’s Jewish community, said.
Since its opening on September 1, the Zwi Perez Chajes school center, which bears the name of a former chief rabbi of Vienna, accomodates 380 children aged between 18 months and 18 years.
Before WWII, about 200,000 Jews lived in Vienna. An estimated 65,000 Austrian Jews perished in the Holocaust.
Today Vienna’s Jewish community numbers around 7,000 people.
London and Paris have much larger schools
Mazel Tov. How can anyopne stand to live amongst such antisemiten. I was there and was actually afraid to walk in the streets.
Wat crap JFS is much bigger
I walked around Austria for two weeks and was fine. I wasn’t even specifically careful to ware a hat over my yarmulke, & still no problems. Ditto in southern Germany — where the government will apparently fund your kids’ yeshiva education. The hard-core anti-semites are in Eastern Europe now.
What happenned to our self-respect? Jews should not be there at all-My Mother was hounded out of there at 19, and it was always an ant-semitic place, Hitler was born there, and we go there as if nothing happenned. A Shandeh.Does money make everything alright?
Bunch of stupid blog comments here.
I lived in Vienna for many years (10+) and still have much connections there.
The Jewish community has not grown much but there is a noticeable orthodox community with many Straimlech on the streets on Shabbos. You guys here are a bunch of spoiled brats who grew up in NYC and close-by. Well try venturing a few hundred miles away and quickly you will realize that Jews aint welcome there either. I can attest to the fact that no jew got physically attacked or harmed in vienna in the last 50++ years. (The terrorist attacks were perpetrated by moslems not Austrians). The place is actually a pretty place to live and the frum community enjoys the government’s assistance. They have one or two kollelim there and a vibrant frum community.
You guys who bad-mouth them just stay here in your Brooklyn Ghettos with all the dirt and garbage and congestion and keep thinking that you live in heaven. Do you think that Farrakhan and Jimmy Carter were from Vienna too?
jesoide hatora – beth jacob antwerp,belgium age 18 months-18 years was always largest jewish school in Europe.
Mazel Tov!
May it be a wonderful binyan used to educate our children with the truth. Emes is what is needed.
I am so proud of this new yeshiva’s opening.
Hatzlacha rabba!!!
i was in vienna too and you get shouted yude etc. i wasnt really afaraid to walk around there but to say that there is no antisemitic austrians to worry about is not true either because if you lived there then you had the honor of people screaming after you just because you are jewish. That said i still wouldnt mind visiting vienna again its a very nice place and most people that i came in touch with were very nice but antisemitisim is far from asleep there.
To set the record straight:
Actually, Beis Chaya Mushka Girls school (Chabad)in Paris has 2,500 students. That is besides for the Chabad Talmud Torah which has 1,200 students.
The Chabad School in Dneperpetrovsk Ukraine has 700 students.
Having said that, I wish the new school lots of hatzlacha.
I was born in Vienna and come from a hasidish home . After concentration camp I was undecided where to go and in 1950 I visited Vienna twice. Among the the higher SS the Austrians rank on the top. Kaltenbrunner, Eichmann [born in Solingen and raised in Austria]Anton Brunner, Wicliceny, Stangl and many other most ferocious murderers were Austrians. Nobody knows what happened on the Morzinplatz. Yes today there are erhliche Yidden there but should not live in Vienna. Vienna is a place of Retziche, I lived there and lost my family.Today the population is multitude of eclectic Jews and who don’t care or don’t what happened.
If the 2500 of Chaya Mushka and the 1200 of the Chabad Talmud Torah are like the “700” of Dniepropetrovsk, then you can take off at least half.
Let’s also not forget Kurt Waldheim an unrepentant nazi who Austria blissfully elected for president….yeah its a lovely place!
A few of your readers have a slight idea about the depth of Austrian antisimetism. Google provides you with all the information you need and all you should do type in these names and you get the true history of Austria, Adolf Eichmann, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alois Brunner, Odilo Globocnik, Fran Stangel and Dr. Irmgard Eberle and for a closure Mauthausen and Gusen. The fact is Chabad has fortunes to spent and Vienna is a good place.
Lots of luck to this new school! I am so glad to read that this school admits children between 18 months and 18 years old. How wonderful! Miami also has a large Jewish population and I’ve seen how important it is to have a strong Jewish education. It provides the foundations for Jewish traditions and strengthens the community. Good work and also a great initiative!