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Arad Jewish community

strada Poetului, nr. 52, mun. Arad, jud. AR. Tel: +40 745 104048 Home – Comunitatea Evreiască din Arad

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Trancoso

PortugalCentro

The town of Trancoso is an ancient city at the crossroads of many wars, and as such was transformed into a fortress. The Jewish presence probably dates back to the 12th century. Its population ...

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Malaga

SpainAndalusia

The Jews lived under Arab occupation in Malaga from 743. They settled in the neighborhoods on the periphery in the company of the very active traders of Genoa. At the fall of the caliphate of ...

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Casa de Sefarad

C/Judios esquina Averroes, 14004 Cordoba Tel: +34 957 42 14 04 Casa de Sefarad Córdoba – Museo de Cultura y Memoria Judía –

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Mir

BelarusCentral Belarus

The first Jews probably settled in Mir in the 17th century. On the eve of the Second World War, 2400 members of the community lived there, half of the city’s population. A famous Lithuanian ...

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Rotterdam

The Netherlands

In 1610, the city fathers of Rotterdam issued permits to engage in trade within the city to a small number of Portuguese Jewish merchants. The permits guaranteed freedom of worship and the right ...

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A.B.N. Davidsplein Synagogue

A.B.N. Davidsplein, 3039 KS Rotterdam Tel +31 10 466 9765 NIG Rotterdam | Joodse Gemeente Rotterdam (nig-rotterdam.nl)

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Augsburg

Germany

Archaeologists have discovered an oil lamp dating from the 4th century. A menorah was found on it. Documentary evidence of Jews living in Augsburg dates from 1212. Records from the second half of ...

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Brody Synagogue

Keilstraße 4, 04105 Leipzig Tel: +49 (0) 341 980 0233

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Leipzig

Germany

A Jewish community is first mentioned in Leipzig at the end of the 12th century; and an organized community with a synagogue and a school existed from the second quarter of the 13th century. Its ...

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Tbilisi

GeorgiaTbilisi and its surroundings

Most of the Jewish sites in beautiful Tbilisi are concentrated in the old city, in the neighborhoods along the left bank of the Kura River. Starting from the Vakhtang Gogasali Square (Meidan ...

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Gori

GeorgiaTbilisi and its surroundings

Not far from Tbilisi, about 90 kilometers away, is the town of Gori, the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, to whom a museum is dedicated. The marshroutka is the most economical way: departure every 20 ...

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Tbilisi and its surroundings

Georgia

As you can discover on the page devoted to the Georgian capital, Tbilisi is home to a number of sites linked to Jewish cultural heritage in the old town. One of these is the astonishing synagogue ...

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Batumi

GeorgiaOn the way to Batumi

Large city on the shores of the Black Sea and an important seaside resort, Batumi still has some Jewish sites. From Tbilisi, the easiest and most pleasant way is to go by train (about 5 hours, ...