Samstag, 2. August 2008

Kum in mei shtetele Veklabrug

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYjXUs3t9dw&feature=related

Where can I go?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7AjIAFqG6o&feature=related

Freitag, 1. August 2008

Der Weg zum nächsten österr. Nobelpreis - über den K. Lueger Ring

When Kandel won the Nobel Prize in 2000, he "stuck it to the Austrians" by saying it was "certainly not an Austrian Nobel, it was a Jewish-American Nobel." After that, he got a call from then Austrian president Thomas Klestil asking him, "How can we make things right?" Kandel said that first, Doktor-Karl-Lueger-Ring should be renamed. Karl Lueger was an anti-Semitic mayor of Vienna, cited by Hitler in Mein Kampf. Second, he wanted the Jewish intellectual community to be brought back to Vienna, with scholarships for Jewish students and researchers