The modern synagogue is a low building, resembling a large majority of synagogues before the Shoah. The rest of the country Traces of the Jewish past are rare and include the Jewish cemeteries in Tartu and Rakvere in the northern part of the country. The University of Tartu, an intellectual center since before the war, offers classes of Jewish topics. There are Jewish cultural clubs in Tartu, ...
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Estonia
The Estonian Jewish community is the smallest of the Baltic states, and historically, the one that played the least important role in Yiddishland before the Shoah. Indeed, the community never counted more than 4500 members. Although present in Estonia since the fourteenth century, the Jews did not assume a permanent residence in Estonian territory until after 1865, when the czar abolished the ...
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