ABOUT US / WHO WE ARE
Karl Pfeifer
Karl Pfeifer was born in Baden bei Wien, Austria in 1928. In 1938, following the Nazi German annexation, he fled with his parents to Hungary. In 1943, he emigrated to Palestine where he volunteered for the Palmach and fought in Israel's War of Independence. In 1979, he became a freelance journalist and from 1982-95 was the editor of the official monthly publication of the Jewish community in Vienna. Based in Vienna, he writes regularly for Searchlight, the British anti-fascist magazine, and for the Budapest weekly Hetek. He is also Curator of The Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW). A documentary film about his work, Zwischen allen Stühlen - Lebenswege des Journalisten Karl Pfeifer, has recently been released. Karl regularly contributes to the Z Word blog.
PUBLISHED CONTENT
Victim Competition: Antisemitism and the Austrian Left
- Victim Competition: Antisemitism and the Austrian Left
- DURING THE SEPTEMBER 2008 parliamentary elections, the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) lost many of its traditional voters, yet still emerged as ...