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had been held. The success of this project meant that he soon became one of the most sought-after exhibition architects in the city, being charged with the design of the exposition Alt-Wien ("Old Vienna"), also located in the Prater. In 1895 he was hired by the theater director Gabor
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districts that had been populated with mostly cottage-like single-family houses since the 1860s and 1870s. He traveled widely and joined the Österreichischer
Ingenieur- und Architekten-Verein (Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects).
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European Jewry, particularly the idea of founding a permanent Jewish state. In 1895, Marmorek met
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district of Vienna, near the Prater, for his father-in-law Julius
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as new president in 1905. He was also elected to the board of the
Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (IKG; the Vienna Israelite Community), which represents the city's Orthodox Jewish population.
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