Mr. Visserplein 3, 1011 RD Amsterdam +31 (0) 20 5 310 380 http://www.portugesesynagoge.nl/
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Hollandsche Schouwburg (Joods Cultureel Kwartier)
Plantage Middenlaan 24, 1018 DE Amsterdam +01131 (0) 20 531 0310 http://www.hollandscheschouwburg.nl
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Waterlooplein 2, 1011 NV Amsterdam +01131 (0) 20 552 4074 http://www.waterloopleinmarkt.nl/
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St. Antoniebreestraat 69, 1011 HB Amsterdam
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Moses and Aaron Church
Waterlooplein 207, 1011 PG Amsterdam, Pays-Bas +01131 (0) 20 233 1522 santegidio.nl
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The Netherlands
Holland has always welcomed political and religious refugees. The first great wave of Jews immigrated to the Netherlands from Spain and Portugal at the end of the sixteenth century. Although nominally present since the twelfth century, the Jews in Holland were able to openly practise their religion for the first time beginning in this later period. The Sephardic Jews were the first to make a ...
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Zion Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6 +353 (0) 1 492 37 51
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While Ireland is not an obvious destination for those interested in Jewish culture, the island does offer a few surprises. Ireland's Jewish population has never been higher than 8000, and that was in the late 1940s. Today, it is down to under 2000, of which 1500 are in the Republic of Ireland. The last kosher butcher closed shop in May 2001.
Plus d'infosWestminster Synagogue
Kent House, Rutland Gardens, London SW7 1BX +44 (0) 20 7584 3953 http://westminstersynagogue.org/
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The Jewish communities of London are highly diverse, in terms both of their rites and origins and of their geographical distribution. The orthodox and Hassidic communities are found mainly in the north (Stamford Hill). For information on services, contact the very congenial One introduction to Jewish life in London is to take a with professional City of London or Blue Badge guides. The ...
Plus d'infosGuildhall Library
Aldermanbury, London EC2V 7HH +44 (0) 20 7332 1868 https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
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128 Theobald’s Road, London WC1X 8TN +44 (0)20 7611 2545 http://www.guidelondon.org.uk/
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There is no historical record of organised Jewish communities in the British Isles before the Norman invasion of 1066, when King William encouraged Jews -mainly merchants and craftsmen- to follow him. Those who did came mainly from France (Rouen) but also from Germany, Italy and Spain.
Plus d'infosLa Villette
“Here is buried the body of Sieur Salomon de Perpignan, one of the founders of the Free Royal Drawing School established in the year 1767 of the glorious reign of Louis XV in the city of Paris…Died 22 February 1781”. These are the words on one of the oldest tomb in Paris’s Jewish cemetery. They give an idea of the social importance acquired by the ...
Plus d'infosThe Opera Quarter
In addition to its architecture and activities, the (or Palais Garnier) is notable for its extraordinary ceiling painted by Marc Chagall in 1964. Not far from here, in a room at Hôtel de Castille (37 rue Cambon), Theodor Herzl wrote The Jewish State. This was the founding work of political Zionism, which bore fruit some fifty years later in the proclamation of the State of Israel. is the ...
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Place de l’opéra, 75009 Paris www.operadeparis.fr
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the legendary bohemia of Montparnasse included many Russians Jewish painters who had fled the anti-Semitic pogroms of the day. Among them were Soutine, Chagall, and Zadkine. Others, such as Modigliani, were simply attracted by the city’s prestige and contributed to the tremendous creative effervescence of the day. Division 22 of the ...
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Place Pierre Lafue, 75006 Paris
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21 bis, rue des Tournelles, 75004 Paris 33 (0)1 42 74 32 80
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20, rue des Rosiers, 75004 Paris 33 (0)1 42 78 30 50 www.diasporama.com
Plus d'infosThe Marais
In the eighteenth century, the area around the Place Saint Paul was known as “the old Jewry”. Until the first years of the twentieth century, the square itself bore the name Place des Juifs. The narrow streets here are best explored on a Sunday morning, when everyday Jewish life has resumed after the Shabbat. Rue Pavée is a few yards from the Saint Paul métro station. This is the ...
Plus d'infosThe Île de la Cité
The sculptures on the Saint Anne portal of (Notre Dame de Paris) offer one of the most moving testimonies we have to medieval Judaism. The frieze in question, just above the doorway, dates from the late twelfth century. It represents the Virgin’s mother, Saint Anne, meeting her future husband, Saint Joachim. The unknown artist used Parisian Jews as his models in order to represent ...
Plus d'infosNotre Dame de Paris Cathedral
6, parvis Notre-Dame – Place Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris +33 (0)1 42 34 56 10 http://www.notredamedeparis.fr/
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In 1182, King Philippe Auguste decided to expel the Jews from the capital. Synagogues were converted into churches and building owned by Jews were sold, with the proceeds going to the Crown. The sovereign used the sums thus amassed to build the keep of the castle at Vincennes and to put a wall around the nearby woods. Within Paris itself he built a market in the now deserted Champeaux quarter ...
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The history of Jewish communities in France is characterised by a remarkable diversity, both historically and regionally. It would be futile to look for a coherent identity or shared experiences that would link the communities that were "taxed to the hilt" by the monarchy in the heartlands of the kingdom (Paris, Rouen) to the "rich hours" of the Sephardim in the Comtat Venaissin (Carpentras, ...
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The excavations at Ostia, once the great imperial port of ancient Rome, have revealed the remains of an antique synagogue whose columns support capitals adorned with menorot, the traditional seven-arm candelabra of the Jews. Constructed toward the middle of the first century, perhaps even before the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, the synagogue attests to the more than 2000 of Jewish ...
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