Digital exhibition created by the Jewish Museum of Greece, to frame the commemorative events organised by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, on the occasion of the German Presidency of the IHRA. The exhibition offers a brief historical overview of a distinct Jewish community that has thrived at the crossroads of East and West and shared in the turbulent history of such a ...
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Maïmonide-Averroès-Thomas d’Aquin Institute
1 rue de la Barralerie, 34000 Montpellier Tél : 04 67 02 70 11
Plus d'infosJean Moulin Center of Bordeaux
48 rue Vital Carles, 33000 Bordeaux Tél : 05 56 10 19 90
Plus d'infosJacques Chirac Media Library
7 rue des Filles Dieu, 10000 Troyes Tél : 03 25 43 56 20 Open from Tuesday to Saturday
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Troyes
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2 rue Brunneval, 10000 Troyes Tel: 03 10 95 30 07 Mail: contact@institut-rachi-troyes.fr Opening hours: From Monday to Thursday : 9-12 and 14-18 Friday : 10-12
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Strada Gheorghe Doja 75, Sighet
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At the fall of Carcassonne in 1209, the Jews of Béziers took refuge in Catalonia and rebuilt a community in the small town of Olot. It is known that the Jewish communities of Languedoc and Catalonia maintained commercial, cultural and religious relations. In the thirteenth century, Catalonia therefore absorbed a large number of Jews fleeing the war raging in Languedoc. Olot was destroyed in ...
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A Jewish community existed in Thann as early as the 13th century. In 1350, sources report a Jewish street in the northeastern part of the city. This community remained important: there were indeed 630 Jews in Thann in 1885. Before the Second World War, the community amounted to 160 souls. was first built in 1817 in the Neo-Byzantine style. In 1859, the number of faithful exceeds the capacity ...
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It is known that there was a Jewish community in Inca at least since Jaume I conquered Mallorca in 1229. That said, their presence had been mentioned before by Severus, bishop of the island in the fifth century. The Jewish quarter of the city (call) dates from 1346 and was established by a decision of Peter IV of Aragon, on a request from the governor of Mallorca, after the repeated ...
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Located an hour drive from Jaen, Úbeda’s story is similar to the one of the Jewish community in Jaen. But since the accidental discovery of -maybe the most ancient synagogue in the country- the city became a not to be missed destination is Spain. The Synagogue of Water was discovered during building works carried out in several real estate properties located in the heart of the historic ...
Plus d'infosCompiègne
The Compiègne Memorial was inaugurated in 2008. Since then, more than 90000 people visited the museum. Between 1941 and 1944, this camp was one of the principal transit points of France. About 45000 were imprisoned in Compiègne: political prisoners, mostly communists, and foreigners (Russians, Americans and Jews). The museum is now housed in the barracks.
Plus d'infosIngwiller
The synagogue in Ingwiller is from 1822 and was extended in 1891. Its exterior is surprising since it was constructed on the foundations of Lichtenberg castle. It is not used for religious service anymore. The copper bulb is from 1913. In the 1861’s census, the Jewish population was of 399 members.
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Built in 1841 and registered as a historical monument in 1996, Hochfelden’s synagogue is a classical example of Alsatian’s synagogues architecture. You can see the synagogue, mikveh, Jewish school and rabbi’s house.
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Haguenau has one of the oldest Jewish community of Alsace since the middle-ages. The first synagogue was confiscated during the 1349’s expulsion. When they came back, the Jews built another synagogue rue du Sel. It was renovated after a fire in 1676 and in service until 1820, when the current synagogue was built. Sacked during the Second World War and damaged by a bombing during the ...
Plus d'infosEttendorf
In the middle-ages, Ettendorf was home to an important community of scholars and intellectuals who came to study in the city’s famous rabbinic school. The beautiful Jewish cemetery from the fifteenth century is still visible.
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Jews were only allowed to establish in Erstein in 1850. The synagogue was destroyed in April 1941 by the Nazis and its furnitures sold at auctions. The synagogue was rebuilt in 1957 and is still active today.
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The Jewish community of Diemeringen was organised -synagogue, Jewish school, mikveh- around rue des Juifs (Jews’ Street), today rue au Vin. The community grew in the nineteenth century and counted 139 community members in 1870. The synagogue was built in 1867 and offices sometimes still take place. A Jewish cemetery from 1750 is located by the municipal cemetery.
Plus d'infosDambach-la-Ville
The Jewish community of Dambach-la-Ville dates back to the seventeenth century and so is the synagogue which was renovated in 1850. After the community disappeared, it was donated to the town in 1947 and transformed into a theatre. In 2012, construction work in the building lead to the discovery of a wonderful treasure: a genizah (a storage area in a synagogue or cemetery designated for the ...
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The first mention of a Jewish family in Brumath dates back to 1562. In 1689, there were 4 Jewish families in the city and, in 1766, 8 or 9. The synagogue was built in 1845 and the Jewish school in 1847. The synagogue was sacked during Second World War. After the Liberation, it was used as a food hangar. It was renovated in 1957 and re-inaugurated. Since 1998, a project of transforming the ...
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The Jewish community of Barr dates back to the second half of the nineteenth century. The oratory is from 1868, and the synagogue from 1878. The synagogue was sacked during the Second World War. The building was razed in 1983 after a pillar collapsed. The stained glass were transferred to the Meinau oratory and some stones to the Elisa Foundation in Strasbourg.
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The Jewish community of Balbronn is registered in the censuses of the city since 1665. Some medieval houses of the city center still bear the traces of mezuzot. is located 47-48 Balbach street, in what is commonly called “House of the Jews”. The house dates from 1638, although it started serving as a synagogue only in 1730. The prayer hall was on the first floor, the mikveh in ...
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The city of Helsinki decided to donat a plot of land to the Jewish community in 1900 in order to build a synagogue. It is located on Malminkatu Street. A neighborhood where many of the city’s Jews lived at the time, who settled around the market where they could sell second-hand clothes, one of the only professional activities allowed in the 19th century. The , famous for its ...
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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 the Jews. In 1939, when Finland became an ally of the Third Reich against the Soviet Union, Finnish Jews found themselves in the uneasy position of serving in an army allied with the Nazis: a prayer ...
Plus d'infosTallinn
The modern synagogue is a low building, resembling a large majority of synagogues before the Shoah. The Jewish presence in the city of Tallinn seems to date from at least the 14th century, according to documents found. From 1561 to 1710, when the city was captured by the Swedish army, the settlement of Jews was prohibited in the area. After the Swedish rule, Tallinn was captured by Russia. ...
Plus d'infosGomel
In 1897, 20385 Jews lived in Gomel (54,8% of the population), as compared with 37475 (43,7%) in 1926. Today, little remains of their life here. The Jewish quarter was located on the right bank of the river. A beautiful with colonnades once occupied the slight bend that forms on the main road (Lenin Street). In its place stands the Mir Cinema, whose columns -those of the former synagogue- ...
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In the nineteenth century, more than 70% of Slonim’s population was Jewish. The ratio was 53% before the war. The ghetto was burned down between 29 June and 15 July 1942. At the city’s edge, at the site of the former cemetery, a monument commemorates the city’s 35000 Jews exterminated during the war. In the city center, set back in the relation to the marketplace, the ruins ...
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It is worth exiting the highway midway between Brest and Minsk and heading toward Slonim: in the middle of the village of Ruzhany, a beautiful synagogue still stands today. Its roof is in imminent danger of collapsing, however.
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The region’s sovereigns, the Esterházy dukes of Hungary, granted the Jews special protection within the seven districts of Burgenland. Since 1670, the region has been one of the most important Jewish cultural centers of central Europe. The Jewish presence in Eisenstadt probably dates from the 14th century. A community finding refuge there from other cities but also expelled from it. But ...
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The history of Vienna’s Jewish community can be divided into several distinct periods, with the community itself settling in two specific neighborhoods: in a section of the city center in the First Bezirk and in Leopoldstadt in the Second Bezirk. In the Middle Ages, the first Jewish community in Vienna established itself in what came to be known as the “Judenstadt” in the ...
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