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Steinheim Cemetery

"Steinheim’s Jewish cemetery was consecrated in the 19th century...The Jewish cemetery was vandalized in 1940." Benjamin Rosendahl Copyright: Pogrom Night...

Category: Cemetery
Location: Steinheim, North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Mar 25, 2020

Steinheim New Synagogue

"We also know that a new synagogue was inaugurated on the corner of Markt and Schulstrasse in 1884,...Although services were...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Steinheim, North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Mar 25, 2020

Steinheim

First Jewish presence: 1602; peak Jewish population: 131 in 1855 or 160 in 1885 (sources provide differing information); Jewish population...

Category: Residential
Location: Steinheim, North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Mar 25, 2020

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Jason Guberman

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Jason Guberman-P., A social entrepreneur who specializes in building broad coalitions and melding intellectual and technical innovation, serves as founding Executive Director of Digital Heritage Mapping and is the coordinator of the Diarna Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life.

Joshua Shamsi

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Joshua Shamsi, is Project Director for the Atlas of Jewish Life and Lead Photographer/Outreach Director for the Diarna Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life.

Eddie Ashkenazie

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Eddie Ashkenazie, is a Yeshiva University PhD student focusing his studies on the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in the modern era.

Avital Hirsch

Avital Hirsch graduated Magna Cum Laude from Binghamton University with a BA in language and linguistics. She has studied in Rome at Istituto Lorenzo de Medici.

Glenn Dynner

Editor

Glenn Dynner. Professor of Religion, Sarah Lawrence College. BA, Brandeis University. MA, McGill University. PhD, Brandeis University. Scholar of East European Jewry with a focus on the social history of Hasidism and the Haskalah.

Chrystie Sherman

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Born in Chicago, Chrystie Sherman was educated at the University of Vermont, the University of Paris, and New York University Graduate School of Film and Television.

Gentian Xhaxiu

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Gentian Xhaxhiu, was born in Tirana, Albania, in April 1988. He has attained a Master Degree in “EU Business Law” and has successfully completed the Annual Programme of the School of Political Studies of the Council of Europe.