European Days of Jewish Culture 2021 and other special events
Interview with Hetty Berg, Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin Jguideeurope: Which local political and cultural institutions participate in organizing the jubilees? Hetty Berg: We are organizing our own exhibitions and events which tie in with this year’s jubilees. This year, we will also celebrate 20 years of Jewish Museum Berlin during the summer with a cultural festival “Kultursommer zum ...
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Interview with David Weis, President of the Liberal Jewish community of Esch-sur-Alzette Jguideeurope: Can you share with our readers some of the recent cultural events organized in Esch-sur-Alzette? David Weis: We organized a concert (both online and in situ) on Yom Haatzmaut (300 people). We organized a commemoration for the international day of Holocaust remembrance as well as the ...
Plus d'infosPiazza Giuseppe De Nava, 26, 89123 Reggio Calabria
Plus d'infosVico I Indipendenza, 18, 88040 Serrastretta Home
Plus d'infosSanto Stefano, 88065 Catanzaro
Plus d'infosStrada provinciale Ofantina, Venosa
Plus d'infosThe Jewish presence in Reggio seems to date from the 4th century. However, official documents tracing this presence date from the 12th century. As in various towns in the region, the Jews worked mainly in the field of silk and wool. The first Hebrew books printed in Europe were printed in Reggio by Abraham Garton in 1475. The first Hebrew commentaries on the Hagaddah were also published there ...
Plus d'infosIn 2007, this small town in Calabria inaugurated the first synagogue opened in the region in 500 years. A project made possible thanks to the dedication of Barbara Aiello who was the first female rabbi in Italy, since 2004. Born in the United States, her family was originally from this city. Barbara Aiello’s father, who grew up there, participated as a soldier in the liberation of ...
Plus d'infosThe Jewish presence in Catanzaro dates from the end of the 11th century. In 1073, Robert Guiscard, the Norman conqueror, invited them to develop silk weaving there. They allowed the city to become the hotspot of this specialty in Italy, popular throughout this region. Benjamin of Tudela attested to the Jewish presence in it and its development. However, after two centuries of a relatively ...
Plus d'infosThe Jewish presence in Venosa dates back to Roman times. Hebrew inscriptions have been found on site probably dating from the 3rd century. Funeral inscriptions present in have been discovered over time by archeological endeavors. These finds so far attest to 75 inscriptions present, but access to the catacombs has been complicated for a long time. In particular at such sites to be seen in ...
Plus d'infosThe Jewish presence in Aquila seems to date from the end of the 13th century. Ladislaus, the King of Naples, allowed two Jewish families to settle there and carry on business activities. Authorizations were issued and then withdrawn over the centuries according to the variable-geometry leniency of political and religious leaders. Thus, in 1488, following particularly hostile sermons against ...
Plus d'infosRus’ka St, 36, Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, 88000
Plus d'infosThe Jewish presence in Uzhhorod probably dates from the 16th century and has been a recognized center of study for the presence of numerous rabbinical referents. Among them, Solomon Ganzfried (1804-1886), author of the Kitsur Shulkhan Arokh which is still considered today as a reference work. An intellectual development encouraged by a Hebrew printing press present since 1864, reflected by ...
Plus d'infosVulytsia Pushkina, Berehove
Plus d'infos6 Vulytsya Zrini, Berehove
Plus d'infos9 place Koshuta, Berehovo
Plus d'infosThe Jewish presence in Berehove probably dates from the end of the 18th century, when the city was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Most of them come from Polish cities. In this period, Berehove already had a synagogue and a . According to a census taken in 1921, 4,592 Jews lived in Berehove. A figure which numbered nearly 6,000 a few years later in 1941. They worked in a wide variety of ...
Plus d'infos21 Tomasha Masaryka street, 89600 Mukachevo, Ukraine
Plus d'infos30 Akademika Pavlova street, 89600 Mukachevo, Ukraine
Plus d'infos17 Vozyednannya street, 89611 Mukachevo, Ukraine
Plus d'infos7 Hrushevskoho street, 89611 Mukachevo, Ukraine
Plus d'infos20 Hrushevskoho street, 89611 Mukachevo, Ukraine
Plus d'infos10 Kosmonavta Belyaeva street, 89611 Mukachevo, Ukraine
Plus d'infos3 Berehivska street, Mukachevo 89611, Ukraine
Plus d'infosThis city of Transcarpathia, located at the crossroads of several nations with evolving borders has all the more been marked by many influences: Czech, Slovak, Polish, Austrian, Hungarian, Ukrainian … The Jewish presence in Mukachevo, formerly known as Munkacs seems to date from the end of the 17th century. The first synagogue dates from 1768. Many religious currents were represented in ...
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