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New Jewish Cemetery of Helsinki

Etu-Töölö, Helsinki Tel : +358 9 586 0310 https://www.jchelsinki.fi/en/node/220393

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National Library of Finland

Unioninkatu 36, 00170 Helsinki Tel : + 358 2941 23196 https://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en

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Synagogue and Community Center of Helsinki

Malminkatu 26, 00100 Helsinki Tel : +358 9 586 0310 https://www.jchelsinki.fi/en

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Turku

Finland

Turku was an important city when Finland was part of the Kingdom of Sweden before independence. It has a Jewish presence dating back to the 19th century, with some dating back to 1853. Following the city’s donation of a plot of land in 1900, the Turku was built in 1912. Mainly architecturally influenced by Byzantine art and Art Nouveau, which was very popular at the time. The ...

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Ancient Jewish cemetery of Vauvert

Chemin du Grès, Vauvert

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Ancient synagogue of Lunel

207 rue Ménard, Lunel

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Posquières-Vauvert

France > Occitanie

Four hundred Jews lived in Posquières in the 12th century, according to the Benjamin of Tudela’s travels. A city where, as the author recounts, a community very much invested in study and research was maintained. Like other towns in the region at the time. Benjamin of Tudela notes the presence of a Talmudic school run by Rabbi Abraham ben David. Which wouldn’t be just a local ...

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Lunel

France > Occitanie

In his Book of Travels, Benjamin of Tudela mentions the Jewish community of Lunel. As well as the active study of texts by students and the spiritual leader Rabbi Meshoullam. According to Tudela, Meshoullam was surrounded by his five children during his activities. Children who later became rabbis: Joseph, Isaac, Jacob, Aaron and Asher. For this community of only 300 members, according to the ...

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Lattes

France > Occitanie

Once a city and now a village, Michaël Iancu describes in his book Les Juifs de Montpellier et des terrains d’Oc the contribution of Lattes to the development of Montpellier in the Middle Ages and its importance in the region’s Jewish cultural and intellectual heritage. The surname “de Lattes” was frequent at the time among the Jews and probably carried because of ...

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