A combination of two strong personal wishes have brought about the writing of this doctoral dissertation. Firstly, to set a memorial to the Jewish community of Vienna which fell victim to the Nazi holocaust; secondly, to look back in an attempt to better comprehend the years of my childhood and early adolescence spent in that city. My work as a Jewish educator led me to choose the educational system of Viennese Jewry as the topic of my study which would enable me to satisfy both wishes. The research needed to understand the ideologies, organizaitons and personnel of Jewish education in Vienna aided in my personal research for clarification of this early period of my life.