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Gerona was the second most important community in Catalonia, both for its size (1000 men and women in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, but only 100 or so in the fifteenth) and for the quality of its scholars. Gerona was the home of Nahmanides, Johan ben Abraham Gerondi, Azriel of Gerona, Bonastruc da Porta, and Isaac the Blind. Gerona’s Jewish history has been famous since 1980, ...
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The Jewish presence in Basel probably dates from 1213. During the Middle Ages, as in many other cities in the region, the situation of the Jews varied between acceptance, persecution and expulsion, depending on the power in place. In the wave of major expulsions that took place between the end of the 14th and the end of the 15th century, the Basel Jews were expelled in 1397. “In Basel, ...
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In Worms, directly administered by Emperor Henry IV, the Jewish community obtained the right to trade by public edict of the emperor as early as 1074. The synagogue of Worms was founded in 1034. Not only the location of worship but also a center for study, the synagogue made Worms the spiritual and cultural center of Judaism during the Middle Ages. Famous rabbis A native of Troyes, the ...
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The independent city of Frankfurt has welcomed Jews since 1150. However, from 1460 until their emancipation at the end of the seventeenth century, the Jews were confined to Judengasse (alley of the Jews), a ghetto that became quickly overcrowded. In 1720, moneylender Meyer Amschel Rothschild, his wife, Gütele, and their eighteen children moved into one of the houses in the area. Meyer’s ...
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Once again the capital of a unified Germany, Berlin today has the largest Jewish community in the country (11 000 people). This is nonetheless far fewer than the some 170 000 Jews who lived here just before Hitler’s rise to power in 1933. One can well imagine that the ghosts of history will wander in Berlin for a long time to come, a city that, like Vienna, was a major economic, ...
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With 30,000 Jews, Manchester has the highest Jewish population in Great Britain after London. The Jewish presence in Manchester seems to date from the late 18th century, with many of them coming from Liverpool. Its first synagogue was built at this time, under the leadership of the brothers Lemon and Jacob Nathan. It moved to Garden Street in 1794, then to Ainsworth Court in 1806, to ...
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Brussels, the capital of the European institutions, a celebratory place appreciated by tourists, but also a city immortalised by the numerous comic strips born there, remains an amazing city. The cohabitation of a magnificent old town, office towers, and numerous bars where one finds the warm Belgian spirit. But also a worrying radicalism and its drifts, as illustrated by the terrorist attack ...
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Kazerne Dossin, 153 Goswin de Stassartstraat, 2800 Mechelen Tel : +32 15 29 06 60 https://www.kazernedossin.eu
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21, rue des Minimes, 1000 Bruxelles + 32 (0) 2 512 19 63 Musée Juif de Belgique – Art et histoire du judaïsme et des Juifs en Belgique. (mjb-jmb.org)
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Despite the devastations of the Second World War and the aesthetic shortcomings of post-war reconstruction, Amsterdam offers the visitor a Jewish patrimony of extraordinary richness that is concentrated, for the most part, in its memorials. The former Jewish quarter, the Jodenbuurt, is yours to discover along the streets and canals in the southeast of the city. It is easy to imagine the ...
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Nieuwe Amstelstraat 1, 1011 PL Amsterdam +01131 (0) 20 531 0310 Joods Museum + junior | Joods Cultureel Kwartier (jck.nl)
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3 Walworth Rd, Dublin 8 Tel: +353 1 546 1096 Irish Jewish Museum – a heritage like no other…
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Saint John’s Wood, Hampstead, and, above all, Golders Green and Stamford Hill are the heart of London’s Jewish life and have numbers of shops. Amusingly enough, most of the shops selling kosher products are now run by Indians. Opening of the Jewish Museum and the London Museum of Jewish Life The was founded by Cecil Roth, Wilfred Samuel and Alfred Rubens in 1932. It was originally ...
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Raymond Burton House, 129-131 Albert St, London NW1 7NB +44 (0)20 7284 7384 http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/
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71, rue du Temple, 75004 Paris 33 (0)1 53 01 86 53 www.mahj.org
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