Solomon Museum

Rruga Mihal Komneno, Berat 5001 +355 69 307 9580

Sarande

Sarande, a charming seaside resort in southern Albania, is located on a bay lined with beaches and a promenade. In the center are the archaeological remains of a 5th-century synagogue, as well as more recent ones from an early Christian basilica. Complex mosaic floors remain. The 16th century Lëkurësi Castle is perched on top of a hill above the town. Discovered in the 1980s, then excavated ...

Berat

The old town of Berat is a World Heritage Site, known as the “City of a Thousand Windows”. Indeed, the white houses of the city and their windows framed in dark wood seem to be superimposed on each other. Perpendicular to , you will find the Jewish Street. But above all, you will find in Berat the only Jewish Museum in Albania. The was created in 2018 by Simon Vrusho. This enthusiast ...

Samuel Bak Museum

10 Naugarduko street, Vilnius Tel : + 370 5 212 0112 https://www.jmuseum.lt/en/samuel-bak-museum/

“Rembrandt, Abraham van Dijck and Aat Veldhoen” exhibition

Rembrandt was very good at seeing and with empathy – his depictions of the elderly are at once intimate, vulnerable and powerful. In the Age / Time exhibition, Rembrandt’s engravings of the elderly are presented alongside works by his pupil Abraham van Dijck and his big fan Aat Veldhoen. There are vulnerable elderly people dozing in chairs. But we also see wise old men in their ...

Colour and ink. Marc Chagall and art reviews

From October 10th, 2020 to January 11th 2021, the Marc Chagall national Museum is devoting an exhibition to a little-known aspect of Chagall’s work: his collaboration with numerous art and literary journals throughout his career. It is an opportunity to discover original unpublished works (writings, essays, illustrations), linked to the production and distribution of major art magazines ...

Boulogne-Billancourt

France > Cities near Paris

The is located on the eccentric part of rue des Abondances, not far from the Maimonides school. It was built in 1911, according to plans by architect Emmanuel Pontremoli. Its geometric shape is particularly original, responding to the tastes of the time of its creation. The Byzantine references of the synagogue are close to those of the Chasseloup-Laubat synagogue. The painter Gustave-Louis ...

Luxembourg

The first documents attesting to the presence of Jews in Luxembourg date from 1276, when an act mentions the Jewish religion of Henri de Luxembourg. The Jews have lived in the Pétrusse valley at the time. Persecutions, leading in some cases to death, followed charges of poisoning wells during the plague epidemic of 1348. The Jews who survived these persecutions fled the country, from which ...

Nice

France > Provence

The Jewish presence in Nice probably dates from the Greek era. The successive occupations, mainly linked to the conflicts between France and Italy affected the status of the Jews over the centuries. A Jewish presence is identified in the middle of the 14th century. Nice then depended on Provence and the Jews were forced to wear a distinctive sign. In 1406, the Jewish community had official ...

Museum Judengasse

Battonstrasse 47 Frankfurt https://www.juedischesmuseum.de/en/visit/museum-judengasse/

Lecce

Lecce had one of the most prominent Jewish settlements in the Neapolitan kingdom before the expulsion of the Jews. Though there is no evidence of a Jewish presence prior to the 15th century, there are traces its existence Lecce at the time of the Normans (G. T. Tanzi, “Gli Statuti della Città di Lecce,” p. 19, Lecce, 1898). Their occupations were mostly textile dyeing (silk and wool), ...

Stara Synagogue

Szeroka 24, 31-053 Kraków +48 12 431 05 45

Jewish Museum of Tykocin

Kozia 2, 16-080 Tykocin +48 85 718 16 13

Stadttempel

Seitenstettengasse 4, 1010 Wien +43 1 53104167 http://www.ikg-wien.at/

Chernivtsi (Czernowitz)

Ukraine > Eastern Galicia, Podolia, and Bukovina

The former capital of Bukovina, the large german-influenced city of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) once belonged to the Austrian Empire. It then became part of Romania during the wars, was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, and occupied by Germany and Romania from 1941 to 1944, only to become part of Ukraine after the war. This once major Jewish hub (Jews made up around 40% of the population ...

Delos

Visiting the site in Delos is quite easy throughout the summer, the island being accessible by boat from nearby Mykonos. If one place attests to the presence of a Jewish community in Ancient Greece, it is certainly that of Delos, an arid island of the Cyclades. The existence of Jews here is referred to in the Book of Maccabees, while Flavius Josephus mentions them as well. Too tiny to flex ...

Sofia

Bulgaria > Sofia and Surrounding Areas

Jews reached Sofia during the first centuries C.E., the era of Roman domination. Ashkenazic Jews emigrating from Hungary and Bavaria were joined in the fifteenth century by Sephardic Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. Until 1890, they lived in a sort of ghetto, which was later torn down by the new capital of independent Bulgaria. Although one section of the city is still called the ...

Lublin

Poland > Lublin Plateau

An important city in eastern Poland, Lublin has preserved a very picturesque old quarter that offers a glimpse of what life was like here in the seventeenth century, with a city hall in the middle of the rynek, a Dominican church, fortifications, and various city gates. Lublin also features a castle surrounded by a park plucked straight out of a tale from The Thousand and One Nights. The ...

Lodz

Poland > Mazovia

Lodz is a large Polish industrial city where a significant Jewish working class, along with merchants and rich industrialists, were concentrated in the nineteenth century. A fine representation of the reality of life in nineteenth-century Lodz can be seen in Andrezej Wajda’s 1974 film Ziemia Obiecana (Promised Land). Under the occupation, the Lodz ghetto (with more than 150000 people) ...

Budapest

Visiting Budapest requires at least three days. The capital was born from the unification of three cities: Buda and Óbuda on the western shore of the Danube, and Pest on the eastern shores. Although wars and urbanization have left few traces of the Jewish presence in Buda, Pest contains an old Jewish quarter that still houses a portion of the community. Buda “There are a few Jews here ...

Trani

Italy > Southern Italy

During the late Middle Ages, the city of Trani was home to a significant minority population of Jews. This community reached a high point during the thirteenth century. The giudecca of Trani was compact in size, diverse in architectural character and largely open to the city around it, which indicates a specific form of coexistence. At the moment of its greatest physical expansion, we find in ...