Place Mariejol, 06600 Antibes +33 (0) 4 92 90 54 20 http://www.antibes-juanlespins.com
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Granet Museum
Place Saint-Jean de Malte, 13100 Aix-en-Provence +33 (0) 4 42 52 88 32 http://www.museegranet-aixenprovence.fr
Plus d'infosMémorial Site of Camp des Milles
40, Chemin de la Badesse, 13290 Aix-en-Provence (Les Milles) +33 (0) 4 42 39 17 11 http://www.campdesmilles.org/
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29-31 Rue de la République, 13200 Arles +33 (0) 4 13 31 51 99 http://www.museonarlaten.fr/
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Avenue 1ere division de la France libre, presqu’île du cirque romain, 13635 Arles +33 (0) 4 13 31 51 03 http://www.arles-antique.cg13.fr
Plus d'infosMemorial Museum of the Children of Izieu
70, Route de Lambraz, 01300 Izieu +33 (0) 4 79 87 21 05 http://www.memorializieu.eu/
Plus d'infosBartholdi Museum
30, rue des Marchands, 68000 Colmar +33 (0)3 89 41 90 60 http://www.musee-bartholdi.fr/
Plus d'infosMikvah of Bischheim
Cour des Boecklin – 17, rue Nationale, 67800 Bischheim +33 (0)3 88 81 49 47
Plus d'infosAlsatian Museum of Strasbourg
23-25, quai Saint-Nicolas, 67000 Strasbourg Tel : +33 3 68 98 50 00 http://www.musees.strasbourg.eu/
Plus d'infosMuseum of Popular Arts and traditions of Marmoutier
6, rue du général Leclerc, 67440 Marmoutier +33 (0)3 88 02 36 30 http://www.museedemarmoutier.fr/
Plus d'infosJudeo-Alsatian Museum of Bouxwiller
62, Grand Rue, 67330 Bouxwiller +33 (0)3 88 70 97 17 http://judaisme.sdv.fr/today/musee/
Plus d'infosSynagogue of Saint-Louis
5, rue de la Synagogue, 68300 Saint-Louis +33 (0)3 89 69 84 50
Plus d'infosNorway
Visitors walking on the street named after Norway's national poet Henrik Wergeland (1808-45) will be reminded that it was Wergeland who was behind the law that allowed Jews to immigrate to this country. Most of Norway's Jews live in Oslo (950 people), with about 100 living in Trondheim. The Norwegian community can pride itself on having given Israel a minister: the great rabbi Michael Melchior, who
Plus d'infosStockholm
Established in 1775, the Jewish community of Stockholm numbers 5200 members. Its is situated near Raoul Wallenberg Square. The square was named after the Swedish diplomat who, after saving a number of Hungarian Jews, was arrested and then most likely assassinated by the Soviets. A sculpture by Willy Gordon representing a Jew fleeing with a Sepher Torah stands in front of the building. The ...
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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 the International Conference of the Shoah, dedicated to drawing attention to the process of Jewish stolen goods and to the teaching of the genocide.
Plus d'infosFinland
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'infosCopenhagen
The Jewish community of Copenhagen has been active since the end of the 17th century. Today, most of Denmark’s 7000 Jews live in Copenhagen. Abraham Salomon of Rausnitz was its first rabbi, appointed in 1687. Six years later, a Jewish cemetery was established in Mollegade. Destroyed by a fire in 1795, no synagogue was active until a liberal one was built in 1833 in Krystalgade. Years ...
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On the approximately 8000 Jews living in the country of Denmark, the great majority of them as Ashkenazim who make Copenhagen their home. In 1968, 2500 Polish Jews fled the anti-Semitic purges led by the Communist government there and settled in the capital and in Arhus.
Plus d'infosScandinavia
Scandinavia has not always been divided along its current national borders. When King Christian IV (1588-1648) opened Denmark to the Jews, the country included not only southern Sweden and several cities in northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein), where the majority of Danish Jews lived, but also a part of the Virgin Islands in the Antilles, where Danish Jews had a central role. In contrast, ...
Plus d'infosUman
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 by bombs. While these pages are not intended in the present time for tourism, they may be useful to researchers and students as historical references. References to so many painful histories during the ...
Plus d'infosBerdichev
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 by bombs. While these pages are not intended in the present time for tourism, they may be useful to researchers and students as historical references. References to so many painful histories during the ...
Plus d'infosUkraine
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 westernmost margins of the Russian Empire. Despite considerable losses due to the Shoah and resulting emigration, Ukraine still contains a large Jewish community (around 500000 members, or 1% of the ...
Plus d'infosRussia
Until the early twentieth century, the history of Russia's Jews unfolded primarily in territories that no longer belong to the present-day Russian federation (Ukraine, Belarus, Bessarabia, and Lithuania). With a few rare exceptions, Jews were forbidden to settle in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and the city of Central Russia. Of course, Jewish colonies have existed since antiquity on the shores ...
Plus d'infosSplit
Archaeologists have recently unearthed traces of a Jewish presence in Salona (Solin), capital of Roman Dalmatia and sister city to Split, that dates as far back as the first centuries C.E. Salona was destroyed in the seventh century, and its survivors, some of whom were Jewish, took refuge behind the solid walls of Emperor Diocletian’s palace, the origin of present-day Split. ...
Plus d'infosRijeka
The Ashkenazic synagogue, built in the nineteenth century after a design by Hungarian architect Lipot Baumhorn, was destroyed in 1944. The Sephardic synagogue, built in 1928, is still used by the city’s Jewish residents. The community today consists of around a hundred members, as compared to the nearly 2000 it numbered before the war. The Jewish presence in Rijeka probably dates back ...
Plus d'infosOsijek
In 1847, fifty or so families helped found the community in Osijek, Slavonia’s main city. A school and synagogue were quickly built, presided over by Rabbi Samuel Spitzer, author of religious, cultural, and historical books. His son, Hugo Spitzer, became a pioneer of Zionism in Yugoslavia at the turn of the twentieth century. The community consisted of 2600 members in 1940, 90% of whom ...
Plus d'infosVarazdin
Varazdin is an important trading town located between Vienna and Trieste. The Jewish presence probably dates from the 18th century, mainly from Moravia, Hungary and Austria. They worked there mainly in the cattle trade. Among the town’s most prominent figures was Mirko Breyer, a patriotic author and book collector, who donated many works to national institutions. The synagogue was ...
Plus d'infosZagreb
Zagreb is the capital of Croatia. The Jewish presence probably dates back to the 10th century, originating from surrounding areas, but also from Spain and France. A place of prayer was mentioned at the end of the 15th century. Following the expulsion of 1526, the Jews were not able to return until two centuries later. About 50 Jewish families from Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary lived in Zagreb ...
Plus d'infosPiran
Piran is a former possession of the City of Doges, which explains its Venetian atmosphere. It contains some beautiful architecture, including a replica of the Campanile in the Piazza San Marco. This charming little coastal town has preserved its medieval ghetto square, Zidovski Trg, which can be entered through an arcade. The square is surrounded by several multistory houses that undeniably ...
Plus d'infosEstonia
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 counted more than 4500 members. Although present in Estonia since the fourteenth century, the Jews did not assume a permanent residence in Estonian territory until after 1865, when the czar abolished the ...
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