ABSTRACT
The intensity of silence amidst an audience in Vienna during musical performances is a phenomenon not to be duplicated anywhere else, certainly not New York. The bbc man in Vienna, Angus Roxburgh, noted that "the EU is on thin ice in imposing sanctions on the fear of future violations rather than because of any infractions in the new government's programme." The Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna, on the Dorotheergasse, just down from the auction house called the Dorotheum, is a moving documentation of the fate of Jewry in Vienna over the centuries, from the founding of the first ghetto in the thirteenth century through assimilation in the nineteenth and early twentieth, and on to the 1938 Kristallnacht and the subsequent genocidal deportations and the razing of the principal temples in Vienna.
