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* This tour requires at least one of the following per booking: Adult, Senior
From the Middle Ages, the Jewish community in Vienna was one of Europe's largest. This 3-hour Jewish Vienna tour explores the tumultuous experiences of Vienna’s Jewish citizens through expulsion, genocide, and revival. Your historian guide will help you to discover the influential contributions of past intellectual and cultural icons and the fragile revitalization of Vienna’s Jewish community taking place today.
We begin outside the Jewish City Temple before winding through the second district to the destroyed Leopoldstädter Temple. Visiting the Nestroyhof Theater with its stunning Art Nouveau exterior, once home to Yiddish-speaking ensembles, we reflect on brilliant leaders of Vienna’s intellectual, political, and economic spheres from the Jewish community: Sigmund Freud, Theodor Herzl, Karl Krauss, Franz Werfel, and Gustav Mahler. Learning of the victims and survivors of Nazi genocide, we visit destroyed Ashkenazi and Sephardic synagogues and the Judenplatz Holocaust memorial.
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3-hour stroll through Vienna's relevant Jewish heritage and memorial sites with a historian guide.
Metro fare. If you don't have a visitor pass, our guide helps you to purchase at the first station.
Departure Point
Seitenstettengasse 4, 1010 Wien, Oostenrijk
Meet your guide right at the doors of the Jewish City Temple (Stadttempel). When you book, we send you your guide's photo, phone and bio.
Return Details
Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Judenpl., 1010 Wien, Austria
We end at Vienna's Holocaust Memorial, just a few minutes walk from your tour's beginning at the City Temple.
Stadttempel Synagogue, Vienna, Austria 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. 15 minutes
Nestroypl. 1, 1020 Wien, Austria 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. 20 minutes
Leopoldstadt, Vienna, Austria 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. 30 minutes
Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Vienna, Austria 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. 25 minutes
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Your tour guides are professors, doctoral students, historians, journalists, art critics, and published author
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
Jeffrey S
16 Jul 2025
Don’t hesitate to do this illuminating tour about the history and character of what was the now long gone Vienna of the Jewish community
Curious64582486611
04 Jun 2025
Sober but great tour. Our guide was patient and explained all the details we were asking about. We felt her approach was fresh and something very different and new. Everyone should visit Jewish quarters and hire professionals who know the subject well.
Paula_C
12 May 2025
Very informative guide. Helped us to understand the history of the region and its people. Pointed out many details we wouldn’t have understood or noticed or given reverence to without her.
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