Marcus Ehrenpreis: unrequited love

Lecture at the Jewish Museum in Stockholm “You and I were born into Judaism. You when so many Jewish roads still seemed open, I when so many Jewish roads had been closed. You when there was so much to break, to make up for and to breathe new life into, I when so much Jewish life was wiped out and the question could be seriously asked whether Jewishness was still possible.” This is ...

Simchat Muzika / Magdalena Maslanova, Pavel Ciprys a Matej Polasek

Concert at the Maisel Synagogue October 7th, 2021 A concert given by leading Czech musicians – members of the Czech Philharmonic and the Czech National Theatre Orchestra – featuring works by Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) and Gideon Klein (1890–1959). Tickets may be purchased in advance at the Maisel Synagogue and at the Jewish Museum’s Information and Reservation Centre (Maiselova 15, ...

Berlin

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 ...

Esch-sur-Alzette

European Days of Jewish Culture 2021 and other special events

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 ...

National Museum of Archaeology of Reggio

Piazza Giuseppe De Nava, 26, 89123 Reggio Calabria

Via Giudecca de Reggio

Serrastretta synagogue

Vico I Indipendenza, 18, 88040 Serrastretta Home

Santo Stefano church

Santo Stefano, 88065 Catanzaro

Jewish catacombs

Strada provinciale Ofantina, Venosa

Reggio

Italy > Calabria

The 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 ...

Serrastretta

Italy > Calabria

In 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 ...

Catanzaro

Italy > Calabria

The 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 ...

Venosa

Italy > Basilicata

The 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 ...

Aquila

Italy > Abruzzo

The 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 ...

Calabria

Basilicata

Abruzzo

Synagogue of Uzhhorod

Rus’ka St, 36, Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, 88000

Uzhhorod

Ukraine > Transcarpathia

The 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 ...

Jewish cemetery of Berehove

Vulytsia Pushkina, Berehove

Synagogue of Berehove

6 Vulytsya Zrini, Berehove

Ancient synagogue of Berehove

9 place Koshuta, Berehovo

Berehove

Ukraine > Transcarpathia

The 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 ...

Jewish cemetery of Mukachevo

21 Tomasha Masaryka street, 89600 Mukachevo, Ukraine

Ancient cemetery of Mukachevo

30 Akademika Pavlova street, 89600 Mukachevo, Ukraine

Belz Synagogue of Mukachevo

17 Vozyednannya street, 89611 Mukachevo, Ukraine

Bais Medrash hagadol of Mukachevo

7 Hrushevskoho street, 89611 Mukachevo, Ukraine

Hoif complex of the Munkacser Rebbes

20 Hrushevskoho street, 89611 Mukachevo, Ukraine

Bais Hakneses hagadol of Mukachevo

10 Kosmonavta Belyaeva street, 89611 Mukachevo, Ukraine

Spinka synagogue of Mukachevo

3 Berehivska street, Mukachevo 89611, Ukraine