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Edinburgh

Scotland

As in the rest of the country, the Scottish capital received virtually no Jews until the 18th century. We find the administrative trace of a request for installation by a certain David Brown in ...

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Glasgow

Scotland

Most of Glasgow’s synagogues are in the suburbs, where the majority of the city’s 6,500 Jews now live. The oldest of them, dating from 1879, is in . As in the rest of the country, the ...

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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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Sternberg Centre

80 E End Rd, London N3 2SY Tel +44 (0) 20 8349 5600 http://www.lbc.ac.uk/

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Jewish Museum of London

Raymond Burton House, 129-131 Albert St, London NW1 7NB Tel: +44 (0)20 7284 7384 http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/

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Imperial War Museum

Lambeth Rd, London SE1 6HZ Tel: +44 (0) 20 7416 5000 http://www.iwm.org.uk/

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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

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Bevis Marks Synagogue

4 Heneage Ln, London EC3A 5DQ Tel : +44 (0) 20 76211188 http://www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/

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Guildhall Library

Aldermanbury, London EC2V 7HH Tel: +44 (0) 20 7332 1868 Guildhall Library – The Library of London History – City of London

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British Museum

Great Russell St, London WC1B 3DG Tel : +44 (0)20 7323 8299 http://www.britishmuseum.org/

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Drancy Shoah Memorial

110 Avenue Jean Jaurès – Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, 93700 Drancy Tel : +33 1 42 77 44 72 Mémorial de la Shoah – Musée et centre de documentation Mémorial de la Shoah de Drancy

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Northern Paris

FranceParis

“Here is buried the body of Sieur Salomon de Perpignan, one of the founders of the Free Royal Drawing School established in the year 1767 of the glorious reign of Louis XV in the city of ...

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The Opera Quarter

FranceParis

In addition to its architecture and activities, the   (or Palais Garnier) is notable for its extraordinary ceiling painted by Marc Chagall in 1964. Not far from here, in a room at Hôtel de ...

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Synagogue Buffault

28, rue Buffault, 75009 Paris Tel : +33 1 49 70 70 00 www.buffault.net

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Rive Gauche

FranceParis

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the legendary bohemia of Montparnasse included many Russians Jewish painters who had fled the anti-Semitic pogroms of the day. Among them were Soutine, ...

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ACIP Synagogue

14, rue Chasseloup Laubat, 75015 Paris Tel : +33 1 42 73 36 29 Communauté de Chasseloup-Laubat

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Montparnasse cemetery

3 boulevard Edgar Quinet, 75014 Paris Tel : +33 1 44 10 86 50 Cimetière du Montparnasse – Ville de Paris