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Cemetery of Györ

Temetö utca 33 9025 Györ Tel : +36 70 384 82 17 Institutions of the Jewish Community in Győr

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Hegenheim’s Jewish cemetery

On the left just after leaving the village by the D12 bis road Tel +33 3 88 14 46 50 http://judaisme.sdv.fr/synagog/hautrhin/g-p/hegenh/cimet2.htm

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Brody

UkraineEastern Galicia, Podolia, and Bukovina

The terrifying war against Ukraine changes, of course, the function of these pages devoted to the Jewish cultural heritage of that country. Many of the places mentioned were razed to the ground ...

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Latvia’s Jewish Cemeteries

Latvia

The number of active Jewish communities in Latvia is much smaller since the Shoah. All information concerning them is likely to quickly prove obsolete, since demographic trends in the communities ...

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Rhodes

Greece

In the fourteenth century, a Jewish community settled behind the ramparts of Rhodes erected by the knights of Saint John after their flight from the Holy Land. These Jews had the strange destiny ...

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Mád

HungaryCarpathian Foothills

Built in 1795, the looms over the old Jewish quarter with its elegant white facade. With the Protestant church on the other side of the small valley, it symbolizes the religious balance of a ...

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Ljubljana

SloveniaCentral and Northeast Slovenia

The only remaining traces of a prior Jewish presence in Ljubljana are the names of two narrow streets in the city center, Street of the Jews (Zidovska ulica) and Passage of the Jews ...

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Faro

PortugalAlgarve

Capital of the Algarve region in southern Portugal, the city of Faro was home to a large Jewish community, expelled in 1497. A number of them continued to live there as conversos. Jews did not ...

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Vitoria

SpainBasque Country

The town of Vitoria had 300 Jews in 1290 and 900 on the eve of the expulsion -the equivalent of 6 or 7% of the total population. Their main activities were tax collecting and medicine. In 1492 ...

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Carouge

SwitzerlandFrench-Speaking Switzerland

Before Jews were able to settle in Geneva, the neighboring city of Carouge (at the time part of the Kingdom of Sardinia) opened its doors to them around 1779. The sole remaining Jewish ...

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Ostend

Belgium

Ostend is a seaside town that has been very popular with British holidaymakers for centuries, as James Joyce, for example, testified. But also for the Belgian working class. The Ostend painter ...

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The Hague

The Netherlands

The monumental Ashkenazic Synagogue in The Hague was sold to the municipality, which put it at the disposal of a congregation of Turkish Muslims. It has since become the Al Aqsa Mosque. The ...

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Belfast

Ireland

The Jewish presence in Belfast appears to date back to the mid-19th century, with the arrival of German Jewish merchants. The first synagogue in Belfast was built in 1871 on Great Victoria ...