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Crowdfunding Freud: Help Give Vienna’s Most Famous Jew His Due

November 29, 2017 by Edie Jarolim 4 Comments

In his introduction to Berggasse 19, a compilation of photographs that Edmund Engelman took of Sigmund Freud's home and office just before the father of psychoanalysis fled Nazi-occupied Vienna, biographer Peter Gay detailed Freud's symbolic absence from Austria's capital after World War II. Noting the lack of tourist brochures,  street names, and statues celebrating Freud in

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Karl Lueger vs Sigmund Freud: A Disturbing Contrast in Vienna’s Legacies

July 14, 2014 by Edie Jarolim 15 Comments

For most of my week in Vienna, my experience of the city was so positive as to be a bit surreal.  I remembered Vienna from the early 1970s -- the only time I'd visited before -- as being gloomy and dour. I also imagined that, given what I'd learned over the last few years about my family's history, I would be coping with a lot of difficult emotions. Not so. The

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Inspiring My Vienna Visit: A Talk About Freud & Oscar Nemon

May 21, 2014 by Edie Jarolim 6 Comments

Several people have asked: What finally spurred you to visit Vienna this  June? Good question. I've been wanting to go for more than 2½ years, ever since I found out about the connection between my great uncle, Siegmund Kornmehl, and Vienna's Sigmund Freud Museum, but had been dragging my heels. Money, ambivalence, pet care...I always had an excuse not to go. With the need

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