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Vienna 1900 at The Leopold Museum: The International Impact of the Birth of Modernism
Marie von Ebner- Eschenbach, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, Adolf Loos, Otto Wagner, Stefan Zweig and many other brilliant minds all lived in Vienna at the turn of the last century, a vibrant place where the splendour of the aristocracy contrasted with the poverty of the lower classes, anti-Semitism caused the birth of Zionism and rigid traditions clashed with the spirit of modernity. Josef Hoffmann’s architecture and the designs of the Viennese Art Nouveau as well as Arnold Schönberg’s “Emancipation of Dissonance” and Freud’s theory of the subconscious are examples of the epochal dynamics of this time.
At the same time, prominent architects such as Otto Wagner, Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos and Joseph Maria Olbrich designed world-famous buildings in the Austro-Hungarian capital at the turn of the 20th century, such as the Secession building, the Postal Savings Bank and the Looshaus.

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Where Is Sanctity to Be Found?
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“Where is it more beautiful, there or there?” “What do you mean, Raphael, what do you mean by ‘there or there’? Or perhaps you meant to ask about there or here, meaning in the Land of Israel or in Szibucz.” Said Raphael, “Yesterday I read in a book about the River Sambatyon and the Ten Tribes and the Sons of Moses, and I ask where is it more beautiful, there or in the Land of Israel?” “You are asking something that is clear of itself,” I replied; “after all, the Ten Tribes and the Sons of Moses look forward all their lives to go up to the Land of Israel, and unless the Holy One, blessed be He, had not surrounded them with the River Sambatyon, wouldn’t they hurry to the Land of Israel? But all week long the River Sambatyon races rapidly and casts up stones, so that no one can cross, because they are very pious men and observe the Sabbath. And you ask where it is more beautiful! Certainly in the Land of Israel.”²
The above-quoted conversation is drawn from “Beyond the River Sambatyon,” a chapter of Shmu

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Where Is Sanctity to Be Found?

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