Location
Western Paris
Following the resurgence of antisemitic acts in France in the year 2000 and its continuity, many Jews moved, leaving the working-class areas where such attacks became banal, preferring to rent ...
Site
Nissim de Camondo Museum
63 rue Monceau, 75008 Paris Tél : 01 53 89 06 50 Musée Nissim de Camondo
Location
The Golden Horn: Hasköy
Hasköy is the other Jewish suburb of Istanbul, located on the northern bank of the Golden Horn. When the Ottoman Empire was at its height in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Hasköy was ...
Location
Istanbul and Surrounding Areas
Sumptuous and decadent, immense and frenetic, Istanbul is “the world in one city”, as it is often described by Western travelers overwhelmed by the city’s splendor. The skyline ...
Location
Turkey
In the beautiful synagogue of Ahrida, one of the oldest in Istanbul, the tevah assumes the shape of a caravel symbolizing not only Noah's Ark but also the vessels that in 1492 transported the ...