Article: The underground synagogue of Vienna

STEPHEN GABRIEL ROSENBERG
Jerusalem Post
08-22-2008
Headline: The underground synagogue of Vienna
Byline: STEPHEN GABRIEL ROSENBERG
Edition; Up Front
Section: Features
Page: 24

Friday, August 22, 2008 -- It happened in 1421 in Vienna. It had happened in 1182 in Paris, in 1290 in England and in 1348 in Strasbourg, then part of Germany. The Jews were forcibly converted, killed or expelled and their synagogue destroyed. In some cases they returned within a few years, but in England and Vienna not for hundreds of years. In Vienna the poorer Jews who refused to convert to Christianity were deprived of their meager property and foodstuff and set on rudderless boats on the Danube which floated them ...

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