History of the Jews in Austria

Austrian Jews
עסטרײַכישע ייִדן
יהדות אוסטריה
Österreichische Juden
The location of Austria (dark green) in Europe
Total population
10,300 to 18,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Austrian German, Yiddish, Hebrew
Religion
Judaism
Related ethnic groups
Other Jews (Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi), German Jews, Czech Jews, Polish Jews, Hungarian Jews, Russian Jews, Ukrainian Jews

The history of the Jews in Austria probably begins with the exodus of Jews from Judea under Roman occupation.[2][3][4][5][6] There have been Jews in Austria since the 3rd century CE. Over the course of many centuries, the political status of the community rose and fell many times: during certain periods, the Jewish community prospered and enjoyed political equality, and during other periods it suffered pogroms, deportations to concentration camps and mass murder, and antisemitism. The Holocaust drastically reduced the Jewish community in Austria and only 8,140 Jews remained in Austria according to the 2001 census. Today, Austria has a Jewish population of 10,300 which extends to 33,000 if Law of Return is accounted for, meaning having at least one Jewish grandparent.[1]

  1. ^ a b "How many Jews in Austria". 18 June 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  2. ^ Doten-Snitker, Kerice (December 14, 2020). "Contexts of State Violence: Jewish Expulsions in the Holy Roman Empire". Social Science History Association. 45 (1): 131–163. doi:10.1017/ssh.2020.39. ISSN 0145-5532 – via Cambridge University Press.
  3. ^ Rutgers, Leonard Victor (1994-04-01). "Roman Policy towards the Jews: Expulsions from the City of Rome during the First Century C.E." Classical Antiquity. 13 (1): 56–74. doi:10.2307/25011005. ISSN 0278-6656. JSTOR 25011005.
  4. ^ Slingerland, Dixon (1992). "Suetonius Claudius 25.4, Acts 18, and Paulus Orosius' "Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII:" Dating the Claudian Expulsion(s) of Roman Jews". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 83 (1/2): 127–144. doi:10.2307/1455110. ISSN 0021-6682. JSTOR 1455110.
  5. ^ Merrill, Elmer Truesdell (1919). "The Expulsion of Jews from Rome under Tiberius". Classical Philology. 14 (4): 365–372. doi:10.1086/360251. ISSN 0009-837X. JSTOR 263501.
  6. ^ Lans, Birgit van der (2015), Labahn, Michael; Lehtipuu, Outi (eds.), "The Politics of Exclusion: Expulsions of Jews and Others from Rome", People under Power: Early Jewish and Christian Responses to the Roman Empire, Amsterdam University Press, pp. 33–78, ISBN 978-90-485-2199-9, retrieved 2024-02-19