1A, Rue René Hirschler, 67000 Strasbourg Tel : +33 3 88 14 46 50 Synagogue de la Paix – Consistoire Israélite du Bas-Rhin
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Museum 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/
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Ancient Synagogue of Marmoutier
11, rue du Plan, 67440 Marmoutier Communauté de Marmoutier (judaisme-alsalor.fr)
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House of Albert Kahn
8, rue du 22 novembre (ancienne rue des juifs), 67448 Marmoutier
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House of Alphonse Lévy
5, rue des Ecoles, 67440 Marmoutier
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Judeo-Alsatian Museum of Bouxwiller
62, Grand Rue, 67330 Bouxwiller +33 (0)3 88 70 97 17 Musée Judéo Alsacien de Bouxwiller|Accueil|
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Ancient Synagogue of Pfaffenhoffen
Passage du Schneeberg, 67350 Pfaffenhoffen +33 (0)3 88 07 80 05 (Musée de l’Image populaire) La Synagogue (valdemoder.fr)
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Tourism Development Agency of Bas-Rhin
4, rue Bartisch, 67100 Strasbourg +33 (0)3 88 15 45 88 http://www.tourisme67.com/
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Synagogue of Saint-Louis
5, rue de la Synagogue, 68300 Saint-Louis +33 (0)3 89 69 84 50
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Old Synagogue of Rouffach
8, rue Ullin, 68250 Rouffach
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Synagogue of the Hebrew Cultural Association
46, avenue de la Libération, 14000 Caen +33 (0)2 31 43 60 54
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Palais de justice – Monument juif
36, rue aux Juifs, 76000 Rouen Tel : + 33 2 35 52 48 09 La Maison Sublime (visitezlamaisonsublime.fr)
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Oslo
It was not until the law passed in 1814, prohibiting the entry of Jews into Norway, was revoked in 1851, that Jews could officially settle in Oslo. A small Jewish community was organised and recognised in 1892, with 29 members. Following a separation of the community, two separate synagogues were opened in 1920. Norwegian Jewish cultural activity developed, especially through the press. First ...
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Norway
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
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Göteborg
Jews have lived in Göteborg since 1782. The Conservative (masorti) rite synagogue is located at the same address as the community center. There is also an Orthodox minyan in Göteborg. Before settling in the city of Gothenburg in 1792, Jews were welcomed along with other minorities to the nearby island of Marstrand. Although the first synagogue was built in 1808, the presence of a ...
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Uppsala
The large university city of Uppsala does not have a Jewish community, but it does have a Jewish studies department.
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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 the International Conference of the Shoah, dedicated to drawing attention to the process of Jewish stolen goods and to the teaching of the genocide.
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Helsinki
, a fortress island opposite Helsinki, was the site of the first Jewish place of worship. According to legal developments, a decree from 1869 and the letter from the Senate from 1876, demobilised soldiers were allowed to work in the civilian sector. The city of Helsinki decided to donate a plot of land to the Jewish community in 1900 in order to build a synagogue. It is located on Malminkatu ...
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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 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 ...
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Saint Petersburg
Despite the prohibition against Jews living in Russia, beyond a clearly defined zone, there were a few remarkable exceptions in the eighteenth century, particularly in the capital, Saint Petersburg, where the Russian-Jewish intelligentsia was concentrated. In 1900, Jews in Saint Petersburg already numbered 20,385, or 1.4% of the population. This figure would climb to 50,000 by 1917 (2%), ...
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Russia
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 ...
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Tallinn
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. ...
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Latvia’s Jewish Cemeteries
The number of active Jewish communities in Latvia is much smaller since the Shoah. All information concerning them is likely to quickly prove obsolete, since demographic trends in the communities leave little doubt about their dying out in the near future. The aliyah toward Israel is likewise becoming increasingly significant. Inquiries can be made at the offices of the . Despite present ...
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Riga
Around 9,000 Jews live in Riga. Riga is also home to the only Jewish hospital in the former Soviet Union. The Latvian Society for Jewish Culture is the principal organization of the Jewish community. Today, the Latvian capital remains an important financial and cultural center. The Jewish presence in Riga dates back at least to the 13th century. Expelled in the 14th century, they resettled in ...
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Panevezys
Panevezys is Lithuanian for Ponevezh, famous for its yeshiva that its prewar leader, Rav Yosef Kahaneman, reestablished following the war in Bnei Brak, the Orthodox quarter of Tel Aviv. The Ponevezh yeshiva in Israel is today the principal center for the Mitnagdim sect and has given birth to the Israeli political party Degel Hatorah. Rav Eliezer Schach, Degel Hatorah’s leader, was, ...
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Klaipeda
Klaipeda is the former German city of Memel, a place where Judaism came under the influence of the modern nineteenth-century Orthodoxy originating in Germany. The city is still home to some 300 Jews. Despite limited rights of residence, the Jewish presence in Memel, which was under Prussian control at the time, dates back to the middle of the 16th century. They gradually gained access to ...
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Kaunas
Nothing of the Jewish presence in Kaunas remains but the synagogue, whereas before the war there was a yeshiva, a kosher slaughterhouse, and a prison. The birthplace of Emmanuel Levinas, Kaunas was before the Shoah a major center of European Judaism, with a population of 40,000 Jews. The large yeshiva of Slobodka was located in a suburban district today called Vilijampole. The Jewish presence ...
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Vilnius
The capital of Vilnius, once known as the “Jerusalem of the east” has few Jewish monuments today. However, in the last few years, the Museum of the Gaon of Vilnius has made significant efforts to promote the city’s Jewish culture and heritage. The Shulhof, the large 3000-seat synagogue built in 1630, was partly destroyed by the Nazis in 1941. The remains of the synagogue ...
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Gomel
In 1897, 20,385 Jews lived in Gomel (54.8% of the population), as compared with 37,475 (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 ...
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Grodno
Grodno, seat of a Catholic bishopric, was once a major city within the Polish-Lithuanian Union, as evidenced by Farny, the beautiful Baroque Jesuit church that towers over Sovietskaya Square. Jews began settling here in the fourteenth century; they were permitted to live in the town by Grand Duke Witold in 1389. In the nineteenth century, over 60% of the population was Jewish; at 42% in 1931. ...
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