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Bartholdi Museum

30, rue des Marchands, 68000 Colmar Tel: +33 (0)3 89 41 90 60 http://www.musee-bartholdi.fr/

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Rosenwiller’s Jewish cemetery

3, Route d’Oberhausbergen, 67200 Rosenwiller Tel: +33 (0)3 88 60 90 90 Le Cimetière Israélite – Rosenwiller Site officiel

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Mikvah of Bischheim

Cour des Boecklin – 17, rue Nationale, 67800 Bischheim Tel: +33 (0)6 15 40 61 09 musee@ville-bischheim.fr

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Alsatian Museum

23-25, quai Saint-Nicolas, 67000 Strasbourg Tel : +33 3 68 98 50 00 http://www.musees.strasbourg.eu/

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Synagogue of Peace

1A, Rue René Hirschler, 67000 Strasbourg Tel : +33 3 88 14 46 50 Synagogue de la Paix – Consistoire Israélite du Bas-Rhin

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Trondheim

Norway

Trondheim’s synagogue is doubly unusual: it is the northernmost synagogue in Europe and the only one that has served as a train station, before the building became a synaogue in 1925! Jews ...

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Oslo

Norway

It was not until the law passed in 1814, prohibiting the entry of Jews into Norway, was revoked in 1851, that Jews could officially settle in Oslo. A small Jewish community was organised and ...

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Norway

Visitors walking on the street named after Norway's national poet Henrik Wergeland (1808-45) will be reminded that it was Wergeland who was behind the law that allowed Jews to immigrate to this ...

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Göteborg

Sweden

Jews have lived in Göteborg since 1782. The Conservative (masorti) rite synagogue is located at the same address as the community center. There is also an Orthodox minyan in Göteborg. ...

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Malmö

Sweden

Danish Jews evacuated during the Nazi occupation arrived by boat in Malmö thanks to Count Folke Bernadotte. Some Jews died after their arrival and are buried in the city cemetery, where a ...

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Uppsala

Sweden

The large university city of Uppsala does not have a Jewish community, but it does have a Jewish studies department.

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Stockholm

Sweden

When we think of Stockholm, we often envision the Viking past. Certainly, they are part of the history of the city, the country and the region. There’s even a Viking museum in Stockholm. ...

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Sweden

Sweden's Jewish community is the most important one in Scandinavia, as much in terms of the number of practicing faithful (18000-20000) as culturally. In February 2000, the Swedish capital hosted ...

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Helsinki

Finland

, a fortress island opposite Helsinki, was the site of the first Jewish place of worship. According to legal developments, a decree from 1869 and the letter from the Senate from 1876, demobilised ...

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Finland

The first Jews who settled in Finland were of Russian origin and were soldiers of the czar's army, called cantonists. With its independence in 1917, the country promptly granted civil rights to ...

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Hornbaek

Denmark

The only glatt kosher hotel in Scandinavia, the Strand Hotel is located in the well-known spa town of Hornbaek. It operates between Passover and Rosh Hashanah and has a synagogue on the premises.

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Denmark

On the approximately 8000 Jews living in the country of Denmark, the great majority of them as Ashkenazim who make Copenhagen their home. In 1968, 2500 Polish Jews fled the anti-Semitic purges ...