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Sweden

Sweden's Jewish community is the most important one in Scandinavia, as much in terms of the number of practicing faithful (18000-20000) as culturally. In February 2000, the Swedish capital hosted ...

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Finland

The first Jews who settled in Finland were of Russian origin and were soldiers of the czar's army, called cantonists. With its independence in 1917, the country promptly granted civil rights to ...

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Ukraine

Ukraine, the largest of the former Soviet Republics, is, along with Belarus and Lithuania, heir to the former "Pale of Settlement", the buffer zone designed t contain the Jews within the ...

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Estonia

The Estonian Jewish community is the smallest of the Baltic states, and historically, the one that played the least important role in Yiddishland before the Shoah. Indeed, the community never ...

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Latvia

The Jewish community of Latvia traces its origins to the middle of the fourteenth century. Numbering today some 15000 persons, it developed in the principalities of Kurland and Livonia, ...

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Lithuania

The Jewish community of Lithuania numbers only some 6000. People It is no more than a shadow of what it once was: until the Shoah, it was a center of the Yiddish-speaking lands. In a sense, ...

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Serbia

Serbia and Voivodina form, along with Montenegro, a nation that had been called The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 4 February 2003, when it was renamed Serbia and Montenegro. The Serbian ...

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Slovenia

A Slavic land under Germanic rule for many centuries, Slovenia finally gained independence in 1991. The fate of the Jewish population here depended largely over the years on the good will of its ...

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Spain

There are numerous legends surrounding the arrival of the Jews in Spain. They were propagated by Jewish and Christian chroniclers, especially in the sixteenth century. Some say they came in the ...

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Germany

At the end of the nineteenth century, an international conference took place sponsored by the Zionist Organisation that was dedicated to the problem of the future national language of the Jewish ...

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Sephardic Synagogue

154, rue Roosendael, 1090 Brussels Tel : +32 475 40 26 49 http://www.cisu.be/

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Beth Hillel Synagogue

80, rue des Primeurs, 1090 Bruxelles Tel: +32 (0) 2 332 25 28 http://www.beth-hillel.org/

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Grand Synagogue of Brussels

32, rue de la Régence, 1000 Brussels Tel: +32 (0) 2 512 43 34 The Great Synagogue Europe | Synagogue | Bruxelles (synaregence.eu)

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Belgium

The history of the Belgian Jews is similar to that of the Jews of western Europe generally, involving migrations and internal changes as the old communities came under the influence of other ...

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Beit Ha’Chidush

Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 91, 1011 LM Amsterdam Tel: +31 (0) 87 876 5225 http://www.beithachidush.nl/

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Portuguese Synagogue

Mr. Visserplein 3, 1011 RD Amsterdam Tel : + 31 (0) 206245351 Portugees-Israëlietische Gemeente – Official Website of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam (esnoga.com)  

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Garnethill Synagogue

129 Hill St, Glasgow G3 6UB Tel: +44 (0) 141 332 4151 http://garnethill.org.uk/

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Scotland

The first mention of a Jew in Scotland is in the minutes of a meeting by the Edinburgh Council date 1 September 1665, and it relates to his request to be converted so that he can work in the ...

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Westminster Synagogue

Kent House, Rutland Gardens, London SW7 1BX Tel: +44 (0) 20 7584 3953 http://westminstersynagogue.org/

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Central United Synagogue

36, Hallam St, London W1W 6NW Tel: +44 (0) 20 7580 1355 http://www.centralsynagogue.org.uk/

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New West End Synagogue

St Petersburgh Mews, London W2 4LB Tel: +44 (0) 20 7229 2631 http://www.newwestend.org.uk/

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Sandys Row Synagogue

4a Sandy’s Row, London E1 7HW Tel: +44 (0) 20 7377 6196 Sandys Row Synagogue