Blog
By Orel Beilinson, Bar-Ilan University. In 1897, the American writer Frank Norris published a story drawn from his own student days at the Académie Julian in Paris. Its hero, Buldy Jones, used to be Yale’s star varsity pitcher. Now an American art student abroad, he dominates the struggle over the scarce workspace at the studio.…
By Nathan Marcus, Ben-Gurion University. On 29 August 1945, Eleanor Lansing Dulles drove into Vienna on the backseat of Adolf Hitler’s requisitioned touring car and as part of a US convoy that further included a bullet-proof limousine formerly owned by Benito Mussolini. Eleanor, the younger sister of Allen Welsh Dulles, director of American Intelligence Operations…
This new series, in collaboration with the Central European University, is devoted to the study of the historical relationship between the United States and Austria, broadly conceived to include the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states from the early modern period to the present day. The series brings together scholarship that treats historical Austria and…
by Tres Lambert, Gettysburg College. Born in 1872 in Baden bei Wien, author, editor, and journalist Hugo Bettauer was no stranger to controversy. His knack for social critique and investigative journalism regularly placed him in direct conflict with powerful people and institutions, making him a lightning rod for cultural and political debate across Austria. His…
By Thomas Antonic The European Tours Between 1979 and 1983, Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), undoubtedly the most influential and famous American poet of the second half of the 20th century, who would celebrate his 100th birthday on June 3, 2026, toured several times through Europe. He was accompanied by his long-term partner and poet in his…
by Henry Blood. In studying the development of railroads in the Habsburg Empire, I initially had no idea there would be any link between Europe and the United States of America. However, while doing archival research, I learned that in the neighborhood of Meidling in Vienna’s twelfth district there is a bridge, the Philadelphiabrücke. It’s…
Within the field of the Tyrolean Photo Archive‘s activities, one recent focus is Sports History. Few individuals loom larger for these activities than the Austrian skier Josef “Pepi” Stiegler from Lienz in East Tyrol. (1) Stiegler became famous when he triumphed at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964. Today, the estate of Stiegler…
Among the many photographs of my experiences with Austria over the past two decades, the one that I treasure most is valuable to me precisely because I wasn’t there when it was taken: The picture–and my absence from it–speaks to how I view the future needs and opportunities of the Austrian-American relationship. Although I have…
“Introduction: Highlighting Austria’s Migration History” 2015 marked the culmination of the so-called “European immigration crisis,” which was, at that time, the largest increase of displaced persons seeking asylum in Europe since the end of World War II.1 Located between two major refugee routes, Austria received around 90,000 asylum requests that year which was the third…
By Benjamin M. Korstvedt “The postwar fate of Mahler’s legacy in Vienna, long his musical home, was both significant and revealing. His works experienced a brief revival there in the immediate aftermath of the war. Within weeks of the defeat of the Nazi regime, the occupying authorities organized a few performances of his symphonies under…