Mazel tov to Johannes Reiss, former longtime director of the Austrian Jewish Museum in Eisenstadt, who has received a lifetime achievement award from Austria’s Burgenland region.
Reiss was awarded the Simon-Goldberger Prize for memory and memorial culture, commemorative category “for his extraordinary scholarly life’s work, his outstanding achievements in communicating Jewish culture and history as well as his tireless commitment to preserving Jewish memory.”
The award ceremony took place September 26 in the restored former synagogue in Kobersdorf.
The honor, the award statement said, “recognizes not only his comprehensive research work, but also his contribution to reconciliation, intercultural dialogue, and the visibility of Jewish heritage in Burgenland.”
Reiss, an expert in Jewish gravestone inscriptions, retired as the longtime director of the museum in 2023 and specialises in Jewish cemetery research and documentation, particularly in Burgenland, which stretches southeast of Vienna.
He has long been active in aiding Jewish genealogists and family historians.
In 2023, he received the Vienna Jewish Community (IKG)’s highest award, the Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal.
Click here to see the official announcement
(Click HERE to read our post about Reiss’s project to affix QR codes to ancient gravestones to enable visitors to learn about them.)
1 comment on “Austria: Mazel tov to Johannes Reiss, honored by Austria’s Burgenland region for his longtime work at the Austrian Jewish Museum and commitment to preserving Jewish cultural heritage”
congratulations! Well deserved – shana tova – ad multos annos – ‘ad meah v’essrim …