Jüdisches Museum (Villa Heimann-Rosenthal), Hohenems

The Jewish Museum in Hohenems, a museum with an international reputation, memorializes the earlier rural Jewish community in Hohenems, emphasizing its many-faceted contributions to the development of Vorarlberg and surrounding regions. By way of exemplary stories and documents, the museum tells about the diaspora, examines modern Jewish life in Europe, highlights current issues in Israel, deals with questions of coexistence and migration. Between its earlier history and modern times came the end of the Hohenems Jewish community, scarred by regional national socialist history, antisemitism, dis...