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The History of Vienna: Jewish Culture Tour
- 3 hours
- City Highlight Tours
- Vienna
Choose one of 2 locals available
Experience hosted by Roxane & Susanne
- Private Tour
- Carbon Neutral
- Destination
- Vienna, Austria
- Category
- City Highlight Tours
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Transport mode
- Walking tour
- Available languages
- English, Français, Deutsch, Italiano
- Included
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- Private Guide
- Entrance to Museum Judenplatz
- All Withlocals Tours are Carbon Neutral
- Excluded
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- Entrance to attractions other than mentioned
6 reasons to book this tour
- Dive into the intriguing history of Vienna
- Get to know more about the Jewish Culture
- See main landmarks & their historical relevance
- Enjoy a tour by the side of a history expert
- Can be 100% personalized to your wishes
- All your questions answered by your local host
What you can expect
If you really want to get to know Vienna, then you must retrace its history. Take a trip back in time on a tour that focuses on Jewish Culture and hear from a local source, stories, unknown details, and insights that you can’t usually find in a history book.
This history tour in Vienna will show you the story behind landmarks, statues, squares, streets, and symbols hidden in plain sight. Check out Karmelitermarkt, Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Museum Judenplatz, and more historical highlights to help you understand how they connect with Jewish Culture in Vienna and how it affected the city from past to present.
Each of the hosts in these tours are history experts and passionate about their city. Check out their profiles and pick the one with whom you share interests - they can’t wait to take you on a tour around their favorite subject and to show you some of their favorite spots in the city. Believe us; they have plenty of stories to tell!
The local hosts are natural storytellers, each one with a different background ranging from arts to history. They can’t wait to share some of their unique stories and personal anecdotes with you! Feel like changing the route a bit? No problem, the hosts will be happy to personalize the tour to your wishes and make their city your city!
Choose your local
Get to know these 2 passionate locals, each bringing unique perspectives and talents. Choose your favorite, check their availability, and book to create an unforgettable adventure tailored to you.
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Roxane
Your local Vienna enthusiast
5.0149 reviewsEnglish・Français -
Susanne
All the Wonders of Vienna
4.740 reviewsDeutsch・English・Italiano
This is the plan
Check out the plan below to see what you'll get up to with your local host. Feel free to personalize this offer with the host of your choice.
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Meeting point
Meet at In front of Cafemima - Vienna to start your journey
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Itinerary
This is what our experience could look like, but it’s not set in stone! Once you book, you can chat directly with your host to make small tweaks to suit your preferences.
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Jewish Culture
Your history tour in Vienna will focus on the Jewish Culture. Learn the impacts, insights and hear stories related to this historic event from your knowledgeable host. Discover the city as you retrace history and go in-depth on the effects this part of history has on Vienna -
Historical Highlights
Check out main landmarks related to the theme of your history tour and connect their relevance through fantastic stories and facts from your expert local host -
Hidden Treasures
During your tour, you’ll also uncover hidden gems that will show you a different perspective of history as you know it, something you can’t easily find in a history book! -
Storytelling Journey
As you discover the historical side of Vienna, you’ll be able to go back in time thanks to the amazing stories and storytelling skills of your local host. Feel free to ask any questions and feel as if you are relieving history in the present time -
Make it yours
Want to tweak the itinerary? Book directly & chat afterwards with your host to adjust highlights, skip stops, or make small changes to fit your preferences.
Book risk-free: Cancel within 24 hours for a full refund.
Need something special? Personalize your experience for more time, alternative locations or a completely tailored plan.
Flexible cancellation policy
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Feel confident booking
Cancel within 24 hours for a full refund. Even up to 7 days before your experience, you’ll receive a refund, minus the service fee.
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Change of plans?
Reschedule your experience to a date and time that works best for you.
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Loved by travelers worldwide
Simple and flexible – your plans, your way.
Reviews from guests
MIriam🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
17 May 2025
Roxanne was an amazing tour guide. I had been in touch. With her prior to arriving in Vienna. I wanted to see if I could find my family home and trace some significant family locations there. Roxanne greeted us with charm and extensive knowledge about the Jewish history of Vienna. She led us to my father’s home, school and synagogue while giving us some in depth history. I cannot recommend her highly enough. Worth every penny. She made our visit to Vienna truly meaningful. Thank you!!!One od the best tours ever
Jennifer🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
12 May 2025
Roxane was a fantastic tour guide! She’s incredibly knowledgeable and a gifted storyteller—her passion for history truly brings the past to life. Her insights and enthusiasm made our time in Vienna so memorable. Highly recommend!Great Tour Guide! Highly recommend!
Bruce
(About local )
18 December 2024
What a pleasure it was to tour Vienna, with the focus on Jewish history, with Roxane. She shared her knowledge and was willing to go deeper into some of the more current topics facing Austria related to its role in WWII.
Highly recommend!A great journey thru the streets of Vienna
Bette
(About local )
11 November 2024
We had a wonderful tour with Roxanne about the Jewish community in Vienna. We walked through the 2nd District and finished at the Holicaust Memorial and the Jewish Museum. Roxanne is very knowledgeable about history and present day issues. She has a good sense of humor and was a pleasure to be with.Wonderful Tour with Roxanne
Unknown
(About local )
11 November 2024
Roxanne was wonderful and very knowledgeable of Vienna and its history. Highly recommend!Fantastic Tour
Robert🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
2 November 2024
Roxanne was a great tour guide. Very knowledgeable about the Jewish experience in Vienna. She was also very friendly and took her time to answer all of our questions. I highly recommend her and the Jewish tour.great learning experience!
Jonathan🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
1 November 2024
Walking around the Jewish Quarter and beyond learning and talking to Roxanne was one of the highlights of my tour in Viennagreat tour
Michele🇬🇧 United Kingdom
(About local )
31 October 2024
We both really enjoyed our time talking with her and we learnt a lot.Roxane was an engaging and knowledgeable
Lisa🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
29 October 2024
I can’t rate Roxane highly enough! Communication with her was prompt so I had no anxiety planning this tour. She was like visiting Vienna with your favorite college professor - she knows so much and brings lots of little details to make it all more real. She gave us ideas of what to do on our free time. And her happy energy is contagious. You will truly enjoy your time with her. Best 3 hours!
Mark🇬🇧 United Kingdom
(About local )
29 October 2024
Roxane was amazing. Knowledgeable, caring and totally flexible. My wife and I were travelling with my 89 year old mother in law. Roxane met us at our hotel, walked at our pace, repeatably told us that she had as much time as we needed and carefully showed us / explained everything we wanted to see and learn about. truly a 5* experience.
Thanks Roxane.Exactly what we wanted
Janis🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
29 October 2024
Roxanne made it very easy to meet up. She was so well informed and filled with interesting tidbits. The experience exceeded expectations. If that's not enough, Roxanne is sweet, funny and beautiful. Roxanne rocks!
Daniel🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
21 October 2024
My wife and I had the very good fortune to choose and the distinct pleasure to tour with Roxane. She is the guide for you if you are interested in Jewish history, Holocaust and Contemporary Jewish life in Vienna. She is warm and approachable, but a serious teacher at the same time. While some guides take you on "their tour", Roxane was interested in what we were most interested in and went from there. She has great command of the material so can answer your questions as they come up. While much of Jewish life in Vienna is rife with tragedy, our tour also included learning about the "good times" and many significant contributions of Jews in Vienna as well. Roxane is not Jewish, which we would not have known if she had not told us, as she is deeply understanding and empathetic of the immense and frequent discrimination and hate Jews have faced in Vienna, Austria and Europe. We recommend Roxane for all groups, all ages, without reservation. Jewish Vienna with Roxane--Tour de Force!!
Ariella🇬🇧 United Kingdom
(About local )
18 October 2024
Roxanne spent 4 hours taking us around the Jewish areas of Vienna and taught us much about the history of the Jews in Vienna, plus lots of interesting facts and also pointed out other notable landmarks in Vienna. She was generous with her time and knowledge, patiently answered every question and was charming and delightful company. Jewish tour
Diane
(About local )
9 October 2024
Absorbing detailed information delivered in a fast pace. Informarive survey
Debbie🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
23 September 2024
We did 2 tours with Roxane and had a wonderful experience!Vienna treat!
Ed🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
19 August 2024
She was extremely knowledgeable and entertaining, and threw in restaurant recommendations for after her tour as well. My wife and I are in our 50s and the kids are in their 20s. All of us would highly recommend this Local! P.S. She was right about the deconstructed strudel!Family of six guided by a historian/foodie
Silvia🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
29 July 2024
Roxanne was our guide for the Jewish tour.
Let me start by saying this young smart lady is not your average guide.She is curious by nature and boy does it show! We spent an afternoon learning not only about Vienna & it’s sad unfortunate history, but we got in depth conversations on various political topics, both old & new. It’s rare to find young people who are so versed in many topics and are passionate. What a joy! Highly recommend taking a tour with her. You will definitely walk away with something new 😉What a great afternnon!
Malcolm🇬🇧 United Kingdom
(About local )
25 May 2024
Roxane was excellent and went beyond what we expected. We were on a mission to find the graves of my great great grandfather and one of his sons. They died in Vienna in 1900 and 1921. I am the great grandson of another son.
The family left Vienna and settled in Glasgow Scotland before WW1
I had some details which I supplied in advance that had helped but before we arrived Roxane had done further research and took us to the cemetery and graves. Not easy in an old cemetery where parts are overgrown and the tombstones are severely weathered.
We then visited other sites in Vienna. It’s possible that I am the first family member to have visited the cemetery in 100 years.
Anyone who has Roxane as a guide will not be dissatisfied.
We also used the underground and tram system to get around which was a great way to experience the city.
Our tour was not an ordinary one and exceptional in the way she met our requirements which were to say the lease a bit out of the ordinary
Malcolm. Myra livingstone. 10
Jennifer🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
1 August 2025
Our family had a fun time with Sandie! She mot only fed us amazing food, drink, and pastries, she gave us recommendations for places to eat for the remainder of our time in Vienna! Sandie is incredibly friendly and enjoyable to be around—she was even flexible and allowed us pop into a few places along the tour. She’s a perfect guide! Delicious and fun!
Karen🇭🇰 Hong Kong
(About local )
31 July 2025
Sandie is a great, extremely responsive, knowledgeable and helpful. She brought out the best of Vienna cuisine and managed to introduce us to the city in between food stop. My kids and I thoroughly enjoyed the trip. It was the best way to start our Vienna trip.
Thank you Sandie 🥰Best way to explore Vienna
Adam
(About local )
29 July 2025
Roxane was amazing. We walked and toured Vienna for 3 hours, and the time flew by. Our group was 2 parents in mid 50s, and 2 daughters (15 and 20). She was able to engage everyone with all different knowledge levels and interest in hsitory. I highly recommend Roxane.Outstanding tour
Debbie🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
28 July 2025
Roxanne did a wonderful job showing us the highlights of Vienna on our first day. Really enjoyed how knowledgeable she was and accommodated our interests.Wonderful
Anju
(About local )
26 July 2025
We had a great tour with Claudia-Maria. She was very pleasant and took time to explain the food and cultural aspects of everything we saw. Very interesting and we were so full!Great insight into Vienna
Ed🇨🇦 Canada
(About local )
24 July 2025
Sandie is great. From the moment she met us in the lobby of our hotel (she was early) we knew we were in for a wonderful day of sight seeing, story telling and food samplings!
Sandie offered up a great overview of what the next 3 hours would look, feel and taste like. :)
We then proceeded to sample some fine local eats, treats and and drink while walking around the city core and learning about the history of this beautiful city and all the events that influenced the restaurants on the tour
Special events are all about the experience and this was a great experience. Thank you Sandie Excellent tour, time well spent
Scotty
(About local )
23 July 2025
We had just arrived Vienna a few hours earlier and knew very little about the city. Sandie was the perfect host, teacher, friend, information whiz. She catered 3 hours just for us from start to finish. It was a magical introduction to the city.Perfect evening experience
Darren🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
23 July 2025
We booked Claudia-Maria for 2 x 1/2 day English walking tours and gave her a list of what interested us. She created a bespoke tour for our group of 10 (ages ranging from 18-80), which included city highlights, the amazing Hundertwasser & Hadid buildings and a guided castle tour. We learned so much about the history of Vienna and even some archeological insight as Claudia Maria is involved in local excavations.
She is an amazing guide and would certainly recommend her!Fairytale Castles & Architectural Wonders
John🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
19 July 2025
Pam🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
18 July 2025
Sandy's was great. We were on a tight schedule so she brought us to a number of great stops to savor schnitzel, boiled/pulled beef sandwiches, an array of pastries and coffees, and kaiserschmarrn. All were fantastic and we enjoyed the history of the restaurants as well as Vienna.Enjoyed Vienna
William🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
10 July 2025
I can’t say enough about the superb tour that we were given by Claudia-Maria. She was knowledgeable, funny, warm and personable. We had a particular interest in Art Nouveau and Claudia-Maria tailored the tour to suit our interests. Claudia-Maria has a strong academic background but was able to present the history and culture of Vienna in understandable ways. We discovered hidden gems and came to appreciate many things about daily life in Vienna today. We give our highest recommendation to Claudia-Maria.Great guide gave us a wonderful experience
kim🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
9 July 2025
She was very knowledgeable, pleasant; friendly; gave interesting insights; and spike excellent English!!
Perfect guide!Roxane was the Best!!!
Barry🇨🇦 Canada
(About local )
6 July 2025
Roxane was terrific from the start. Great, very personable, light-hearted , there was nothing she didn’t know about her city. Can only give the highest recommendation ! She made the three hours fascinating for both myself and my seventeen year old grandson ! A gréât introduction to a great city.
Luca🇮🇪 Ireland
(About local )
6 July 2025
Claudia-Maria was a wonderful host. Our group had learned a lot, ate a lot and had a great time!Great experience
Gerald🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
4 July 2025
Hiring Roxanne to show us around Vienna was a wonderful decision. Roxanne tailored our walking tour of Vienna to our family’s needs (some physical limitations). She also was very willing, accommodating, and flexible to find a driver that could drive us since we had someone on our tour with limited walking capabilities. She has a kind and friendly disposition, and wonderful knowledge of the history of Vienna. Her ability to navigate the city and help with translation while visiting a coffee house were extremely helpful. She felt like family by the end of our 3 hour walking tour.What A Gem!
David🇦🇺 Australia
(About local )
30 June 2025
Roxane was an excellent guide, very knowledgeable about so many subjects, and with a great sense of humour! Highly recommend. So much info and so interesting!
Leung🇭🇰 Hong Kong
(About local )
30 June 2025
We booked 3 days (3 hours each) tour with Roxane last week. I shared the interests of the family in understanding the history of Vienna from ancient time to the world wars. She was patient and explained many important historical events and nuances that might not have been recorded in the broadest way. She made our visit to Vienna much more meaningful. Passionate and Cheerful Guide for Vienna
David
(About local )
28 June 2025
We loved this tour. Can 100% recommend Roxanne. She was so friendly and knowledgeable. Gave us a ton of info and made us feel very comfortable. Friendly, fun, and super informative
GEERT🇧🇪 Belgium
(About local )
23 June 2025
Top gids, leuk, aardig en leerrijk.zeer interessant!
Charles🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
17 June 2025
We only wish we had done the tour when we first arrived. Thanks so much Sandie! Sandie was perfect!
hb47mrf2gq🇫🇷 France
(About local )
16 June 2025
It was a nice tour, we were a bit unlucky with the weather but Roxane managed to adapt easily.
Overall, everything was nice!Nice tour
Rhonda🇰🇾 Cayman Islands
(About local )
15 June 2025
We are so glad we started our trip to Vienna with this tour and even happier it was with Sandie! She was so knowledgeable, friendly and made our tour super enjoyable. Definitely would recommend this tour if you love food and learning about a city in a unique way! Sandie was awesome, great experience!
Unknown
(About local )
13 June 2025
Toprate Top gids, zeer interessant en boeiend!
Holly
(About local )
11 June 2025
Sandie's communication prior to tour was fantastic, helping recommend restaurants and making bookings for me.
She was punctual for the tour and was very informative and fun.
I highly recommend her!!Fantastic
Normand🇨🇦 Canada
(About local )
10 June 2025
Sandie was fantastic. Knowledgeable, fun and engaging guide. She was punctual, and stayed and chatted with us well after the tour ended. The food was great, and we didn’t leave hungry, unlike other tours. Thanks Sandie!Food tour with Sandie
Nang🇳🇱 Netherlands
(About local )
10 June 2025
Sandie was a very friendly and enthusiastic tour guide, very engaging with my daughter as well. We hit the highlights of Viennese cuisine and it felt like spending some time with a new friend. The only thing I would say could be improved based on other food tours we've taken is to get a bit more cultural and historical background. Overall definitely recommended.A very relaxed and friendly tour
Lane
(About local )
9 June 2025
Roxanne was not only knowledgeable about Vienna, she was also energetic and very enthusiastic while telling us the history and stories relating to Vienna especially during the world war two years and how the holocaust affected it. Roxanne was also very informative about the history both new and old.Vienna's past
Ron🇮🇪 Ireland
(About local )
9 June 2025
Great guide she was knowledgeable, friendly, and flexible adjusting to our interests. Highly recommended. Wonderful Guide
Larissa🇩🇪 Germany
(About local )
7 June 2025
Susanne war sehr nett und hat uns tolle Lokale gezeigt und interessante Facts zu den Orten oder Wien erzählt. Die ersten beiden Stops waren auch super. Allerdings haben wir dann beim zweiten Stop recht lange gebraucht, sodass wir nach hinten raus zu wenig Zeit hatten, um noch etwas anständiges zu essen. Der dritte Stop war dann in einem Pralinenladen und der letzte ein Café zum Bier trinken. Es war also relativ wenig Essen bei der Tour und das letzte Café wirkte eher zufällig gewählt. Laut Beschreibung hätte es 6x Essen/Trinken geben sollen. Wir sind aber somit nur auf 4 Stops gekommen. Wir kennen das so anders von anderen Foodtouren, vor allem für diesen Preis.Gut, aber zu wenig Foodstops
Holly🇺🇸 United States
(About local )
7 June 2025
We had a lovely time with Sandie. Not only did she introduce us to delicious food but she also was very knowable about Vienna and its history. Highly recommend this tour.Lovely tour
Christina
(About local )
5 June 2025
Roxane hat sich super nach den Bedürfnissen der Gruppe gerichtet. Wollen die mehr weniger, kürzer ..oder noch was anderes wissen. Geschichtliche zusammenhänge wurden witzig in Anektoten verpackt und verknüpft mit was wir schon gesehen hatten -so merkt man sich wirklich was. Wir werden Sie jedenfalls weiter empfehlen- wir haben Sie als Private Führerin genommen, und das war super!!!Wirklich großartig & lustig!
6j94t8s75n
(About local )
5 June 2025
Claudia is very personable and very knowledgeable about the history, architecture, and culture of Vienna. She led us through the highlights of the city and hidden areas for walking and traversing the town that only locals would know. She took us to a wonderful cafe off the beaten path and explained coffee culture in Vienna. She loves her town of Vienna and is enthusiastic about sharing her experiences in the city. She personalized our tour to our desires. We would happily book another tour with Claudia if ever we return. Great Experience
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