The Holocaust and postwar “ethnic cleansing” turned Central Europe into a conglomerate of ethnonational states. The Cold War divided Europe and made a common culture impossible. Networks of remigrés to Europe were best positioned to rebuild an international culture. The Congress for Cultural Freedom was one of their major organizations. Its Austrian organ, Forvm (1954-1965), became in 1966 Austria’s leading New Left magazine, Neues Forvm. Forvm's editor, remigré Friedrich Torberg, a fierce anticommunist, saw himself as a literary executor of Jewish Central Europe, and shaped a vision of "Austrian literature" as its legacy. His successor, socialist Günther Nenning, became a leading New Left figure. 1968 and its aftermath advanced the internationalization and liberalization that the émigrés had begun. The 68ers challenged national narratives, and their internationalism relaxed cultural boundaries. In conflict and collaboration, the two generations expanded the Austrian public sphere and created a more open European culture that made the long sought integration of the Jewish intelligentsia possible. The EU Jewish intelligentsia inhabits the émigrés' legacy but it is radically new. Having educated the generation that arose for and against it in 1968, the old intelligentsia retired, greatly celebrated, in favor of a younger one, that sought to build a new Europe.