Vienna Jewish Museum exhibits Hollywood's bosses

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The newly renovated Jewish Museum in Vienna is currently running an exhibit dedicated to Jewish heritage from Hollywood. Titled "Bigger than life: 100 years of Hollywood, a Jewish Experience," the exhibition focuses on the first studio bosses who were migrants from east Europe, including Paramount founder Adolf Zukor, Samuel Goldwyn of Metro-Goldwyn-Mater or William Fox. The exhibit will run until April next year. The museum located in a small Viennese palace traces the history of the city's Jewish community which in the early 1900's was considered the third biggest in Europe. An estimated 185,000 before 1938, only a few thousand survived the Nazis.