Compare, for example, the recent decision of the Department of Culture to finance the new Ronacher musical theater venue (musical theaters are heavily subsidized by the Viennese government) with its reluctance to invest in the reopening of the International Jewish Theater in the Nestroyhof. To assist the “commercial” Ronacher venue, the Department has recently made a commitment to contribute 47 million Euro for renovation, plus 22.5 million Euro annually thereafter for programming. By contrast, the not-for-profit Jewish Theater of Austria was denied its request for support in the amount of 400,000 Euro toward the cost of renovation, plus 100,000 Euro annually for the first four years of Nestroyhof programming. Several of the new theaters, such as the Ronacher, that have opened or are currently being built and subsidized on public funding from the Department of Culture since 2000, are housed in properties that, like the Nestroyhof, were stolen from Viennese Jews during WWII. While lavish sums of taxpayer money is currently being poured into such properties for uses that completely disregard this aspect of their history, the government claims that it doesn’t have the modest subsidies needed to help recover the Jewish theater in the Nestroyhof.