Travel

CSA 2017 second day impression

"Judaism From a different perspective". That is my strongest impression from today. We started with a tour in the Jutish district were I first come across with the Jutish hungary...

The Last Witnesses

On Wednesday, the 14th of September, I went to meet Lucia Heilman at the Tel-Aviv cinematheque, as we had decided at our meeting this last summer in Vienna.When I could...

SOUTHERN SERBIA

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NIS, SERBIA (June 2012) – My interest in Jewish heritage dates back to when I lived and worked as a journalist in Belgrade many years ago. At that time Belgrade...

Utazás Tokajba

Wine merchants and wonder. Off the beaten path in northeastern HungaryTens of thousands of Jewish tourists make their way every year to Budapest. The Hungarian capital is a bustling and...

LIPOT BAUMHORN TOUR

BUDAPEST -- Back in the early 1990s, I picked my way through Budapest's enormous main Jewish cemetery, trying to find the grave of Lipot Baumhorn, an architect who was long-forgotten...

BUDAPEST SEVENTH DISTRICT WAKES UP

BUDAPEST -- The last time I wrote about Budapest on Centropa I provided an itinerary of Jewish sights and resources, most of them in and around the city's Seventh District...

Zsidó Budapest

An Overview When I lived in Vienna years ago, I would often take off for Budapest for a weekend, just to have fun. I'd usually make the three-hour trip by...

Vienna

photo taken by Magnus von Koeller, on July 3, 2006, CC licensing Vienna looms large in Jewish history and memory.The imperial Habsburg capital was the vibrant hub of a vast...

Trieste

photo taken by Stewart Morris, on June 25, 2005, CC licensingTrieste sits at the end of long sliver of Italy that curves around the northeastern corner of the Adriatic like...

Dzialoszyce, PolandThe first time I visited Dzialoszyce, a dusty village about 50 kilometers northeast of Krakow, an elderly woman approached as I stood with several companions, gazing at the gaping...

The power of Jewish tombstones

A mighty hand reaches out and, forming a tight fist, grasps the bough of a tree and breaks it sharply off. The image is extraordinary, even surreal. It is so...

The Mahler Trail

(Gustav Mahler, 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911)The years 2010 and 2011 mark a memorable double anniversary for the great conductor and composer Gustav Mahler -- 150 years since...