A Jewish community existed in Thann as early as the 13th century. In 1350, sources report a Jewish street in the northeastern part of the city. This community remained important: there were indeed 630 Jews in Thann in 1885. Before the Second World War, the community amounted to 160 souls. was first built in 1817 in the Neo-Byzantine style. In 1859, the number of faithful exceeds the capacity ...
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Utrecht
Jews have lived in Utrecht on and off, and under varying circumstances, since the 14th century. During the 15th century, Jews lived in the center of the city in a street that is still called (Jew’s Row), located in a courtyard behind the Bakkerstraat. In 1546, King Charles V banned Jews from residing within the entire bishopric of Utrecht. Therefore, the first Jew to obtain citizenship ...
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Located 90 km south of Turin and 45 km from the French border, the city of Cuneo was once home to one of the most important Jewish communities in Piedmont. Today, made up of about fifteen people, the community stands out for its attachment to its synagogue. Located in the heart of what was once the ghetto of the city, the synagogue was built in the seventeenth century and largely modified in ...
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The medieval town of Trancoso is very strongly marked by its Jewish past. Indeed, throughout the Middle Ages, the community of this city in northern Portugal has experienced an economic and social expansion almost unique in Europe. Trancoso, thanks to its important fair, was a city of passage and exchange. In the fifteenth century, the Jewish population rose to more than 500 people, which ...
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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 Cordoba the city hosted many Jewish refugees including Samuel Ibn Negrella who then began his meteoric rise and later became the advisor to the Arab kingdom of Granada. In the eleventh century, there ...
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In 1610, the city fathers of Rotterdam issued permits to engage in trade within the city to small number of Portuguese Jewish merchants. The permits guaranteed freedom of worship and the right to build a synagogue and establish a cemetery. In 1612, these provisions were challenged by the local Remonstrant Church. This prompted a number of Jewish families to depart Rotterdam for Amsterdam. ...
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Documentary evidence of Jews living in Augsburg dates from 1212. Records from the second half of the 13th century show a well-organized community, and mention the Judenhaus (1259), the synagogue and cemetery (1276), the ritual bathhouse, and “dancehouse” for weddings (1290). The Jews were mainly occupied as vintners, cattledealers, and moneylenders. Until 1436 lawsuits between ...
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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 central location attracted Jewish traders from all over Europe to the Trade Fair. The fair regulations of Leipzig of 1268 guaranteed protection to all merchants, and moved the day of the market from ...
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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 Square), located near the traditional Persian baths, take the main street of the old town, Kote Afkhazi Street, which you will go up a hundred meters to see on your left the Built at the beginning of the ...
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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 minutes or so from Didube bus station in Tbilisi for about one euro (3 GEL) and one hour and a half. You can otherwise go by taxi, for about twenty euros. At 25 Kasteli Street, on the first floor of ...
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Batumi
Large city on the shores of the Black Sea and 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, about fifteen dollars). Beautiful white building, is located at number 33 Vazha-Pshavela street, in the old town, which you will reach from the station along the waterfront. It was built between 1900 and ...
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You will also be able to meet with Georgian Judaism by visiting the village of Akhaltsikhe. Located on the road to Batumi, the second largest city in the country, Akhaltsikhe is accessible from Tbilisi either by minibus or taxi, about three hours drive. You can also take the train to Moliti station, then taxi to Akhaltsikhe. It is in the old district of Rabati, located in the city center ...
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Oni
In the north of the country, the city of Oni, about 200 kilometers from Tbilisi, is home to a wonderful in excellent condition, located on Baazovi Street. Built in the 1890s according to the plans of an architect from Poland and Jewish workers from Salonika, this beautiful Moorish-style building housed the third largest community in the country after Tbilisi and Kutaisi in the early ...
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The second largest city in the country, Kutaisi is located just over 200 kilometers northwest of Tbilisi. The cheapest way to get there from the capital is the minibus (about 4 hours drive, 3 euros), and the most pleasant the train (about 5:30 of journey, a dozen euros). The Jewish community of Kutaisi was one of the largest in Georgia. It was located in a neighborhood on either side of Boris ...
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Erfurt
The Jewish community of Erfurt first appears in the historical record in the late 11th century, with the earliest recorded building of the synagogue dating from then. For centuries Jews and Christians lived side by side in the centre of town. There is more detailed evidence from the 13th century. We learn from tax lists and deeds that Erfurt Jews worked in banking, and dealt not only with ...
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The history of the Jews in Cologne is documented from the year 321 AD, almost as long as the history of Cologne. Over its history, the Jewish community of Cologne has suffered persecutions, many expulsions, massacres and destruction. The community numbered about 19,500 people before its dispersal, murders and destruction in the 1930s by the Nazis before and during World War II. The community ...
Plus d'infosGeorgia
Straddling Europe and Asia, Georgia, situated between the eastern shores of the Black Sea and the high mountains of the Caucasus, is a land of plenty, rich in exceptional nature and in historical heritage. Well preserved, it was praised by Pushkin, Alexander Dumas, or Lermontov. The Georgian nation, whose genesis goes back to the kingdom of Colchis, is evoked in the myths of the Golden Fleece ...
Plus d'infosVila Cova À Coelheira
This village, located outside Vila Nova de Paiva, welcomes a small Jewish Memory Center which is dedicated to the history of the presence of the Jewish community in the region. Located in a eighteenth century building, the well documented exhibition follows history through the eyes of the community. Go to the tourist office as you enter the village.
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The community in Braganca was important, and welcomed 3000 additional Jews, expulsed from Spain in 1492. Therefore, the community played a major role in the local economic and social growth. The community relived from 1925. Opened in 2017, the two-story Sephardi Interpretive Center is dedicated to the life of Jews under the persecution in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and focuses on ...
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The presence of a Jewish community in Jaen is first recorded in 612 when a king’s edict forbade Jews to own Christian slaves. If the Jewish population reached its peak during the seventh century, there were most probably Jews already during the Roman period. The geographer Abd al Nur Al-Himyari mentions during the ninth century a mikveh in Jaen, known as Isaac bath. The walls of the ...
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The Compiègne Memorial was inaugurated in 2008. Since then, more than 90000 people visited the museum. Between 1941 and 1944, this camp was one of the principal transit points of France. About 45000 were imprisoned in Compiègne: political prisoners, mostly communists, and foreigners (Russians, Americans and Jews). The museum is now housed in the barracks.
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The synagogue in Ingwiller is from 1822 and was extended in 1891. Its exterior is surprising since it was constructed on the foundations of Lichtenberg castle. It is not used for religious service anymore. The copper bulb is from 1913. In the 1861’s census, the Jewish population was of 399 members.
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Built in 1841 and registered as a historical monument in 1996, Hochfelden’s synagogue is a classical example of Alsatian’s synagogues architecture. You can see the synagogue, mikveh, Jewish school and rabbi’s house.
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Haguenau has one of the oldest Jewish community of Alsace since the middle-ages. The first synagogue was confiscated during the 1349’s expulsion. When they came back, the Jews built another synagogue rue du Sel. It was renovated after a fire in 1676 and in service until 1820, when the current synagogue was built. Sacked during the Second World War and damaged by a bombing during the ...
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In the middle-ages, Ettendorf was home to an important community of scholars and intellectuals who came to study in the city’s famous rabbinic school. The beautiful Jewish cemetery from the fifteenth century is still visible.
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Jews were only allowed to establish in Erstein in 1850. The synagogue was destroyed in April 1941 by the Nazis and its furnitures sold at auctions. The synagogue was rebuilt in 1957 and is still active today.
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