Tag | Mikvah of Bischheim

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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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Copenhagen

Denmark

The Jewish community of Copenhagen has been active since the end of the 17th century. Today, most of Denmark’s 7,000 Jews live in Copenhagen. Abraham Salomon of Rausnitz was its first ...

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Galati

Romania › Moldavia

The city of Galati has been a major Romanian trade hub since the seventeenth century. In 1868, it was the theater for acts of vandalism against Jews following accusations of their having ...

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Stropkov

Slovakia › Eastern Slovakia

Approximately thirty miles northeast of Presov, the small city of Stropkov had one of the largest Jewish communities in the region and was an important center of Judaism. Many of its Jews ...

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Bardejov

Slovakia › Eastern Slovakia

Bardejov possessed a large Jewish quarter where some 5,000 Jews lived before World War II. This small medieval city of 35,000 inhabitants lies thirty-seven miles north of Presov, near the Polish ...

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Presov

Slovakia › Eastern Slovakia

Not far from Kosice, Presov was also an important center of Jewish life. More than 6,000 Jews from the city and surrounding villages were killed during the war. Today fewer than 100 Jews live ...

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Kosice

Slovakia › Eastern Slovakia

The capital of eastern Slovakia, Kosice is a large industrial city of 250000 inhabitants. Its sizable Jewish community was almost totally annihilated during the Second World War. The city os now ...

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Split

Croatia › Dalmatian Coast

Archaeologists have recently unearthed traces of a Jewish presence in Salona (Solin), capital of Roman Dalmatia and sister city to Split, that dates as far back as the first centuries C.E. Salona ...

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Rijeka

Croatia

The Ashkenazic synagogue, built in the nineteenth century after a design by Hungarian architect Lipot Baumhorn, was destroyed in 1944. The Sephardic synagogue, built in 1928, is still used by the ...

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Varazdin

Croatia

Varazdin is an important trading town located between Vienna and Trieste. The Jewish presence probably dates from the 18th century, mainly from Moravia, Hungary and Austria. They worked there ...

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Zagreb

Croatia

Zagreb is the capital of Croatia. The Jewish presence probably dates back to the 10th century, originating from surrounding areas but also from Spain and France. A place of prayer was mentioned ...

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Piran

Slovenia › Italian border and Istria

Piran is a former possession of the City of Doges, which explains its Venetian atmosphere. It contains some beautiful architecture, including a replica of the Campanile in the Piazza San Marco. ...

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Ljubljana

Slovenia › Central and Northeast Slovenia

The only remaining traces of a prior Jewish presence in Ljubljana are the names of two narrow streets in the city center, Street of the Jews (Zidovska ulica) and Passage of the Jews ...

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Charleroi

Belgium

Charleroi is a city known for having been a very important coal basin, but also as an industrial centre. Since the decline of these industries, the city has invested heavily in cultural ...

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Ghent

Belgium

Ghent is a city known, like Liège, for its student life but also as an important cultural centre, its port, and its ancient textile activity. The Jewish presence in Ghent seems to date back to ...