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Gelsenkirchen Liberal Synagogue

"Communal institutions included... a synagogue attended by liberal Jews on Neustrasse (presentday Grindelstrasse/Georgstrasse), the latter of which was inaugurated in...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 19, 2020

Gelsenkirchen Old Cemetery

"Communal institutions included a cemetery on Wanner Strasse (used until 1936)." Heidemarie Wawrzyn Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial...

Category: Cemetery
Location: Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 19, 2020

Gelsenkirchen School

"Records also tell us that the community established a Jewish public school at 44 Ringstrasse in 1894 (enlarged in 1907)...During...

Category: School
Location: Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 19, 2020

Gelsenkirchen

First Jewish presence: early 19th century; peak Jewish population: approximately 1,700 in the 1920s; Jewish population in 1932/33: 1,440 In...

Category: Residential
Location: Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 19, 2020

Geldern

First Jewish presence: 11th century; peak Jewish population: 150 in 1862; Jewish population in 1933: 57 Records from the period...

Category: Residential
Location: Geldern (Gelderen), North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 19, 2020

Geilenkirchen

First Jewish presence: 17th century; peak Jewish population: 168 in 1901; Jewish population in 1932/33: 132 (see below) Jews settled...

Category: Residential
Location: Geilenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 19, 2020

Zuelpich Synagogue

"In 1848, the Jewish community inaugurated a new synagogue, with 70 seats for men and 40 for women, on Normannengasse...Zuelpich’s...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Zuelpich (Zülpich, Tolbiac, Tolbiacum), North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 18, 2020

Zuelpich

First Jewish presence: 13th century; peak Jewish population: 113 in 1885; Jewish population in 1933: 91 Jews settled in Zuelpich...

Category: Residential
Location: Zuelpich (Zülpich, Tolbiac, Tolbiacum), North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 18, 2020

Xanten Synagogue

"Local Jews established a prayer hall (on Schanstrasse) in the 1780s... On Pogrom Night (November 1938) in Xanten, rioters... damaged...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Xanten, North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 18, 2020

Xanten

First Jewish presence: 11th century; peak Jewish population: 98 in 1843; Jewish population in 1933: unknown (14 in 1930) It...

Category: Residential
Location: Xanten, North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 18, 2020

Weinberg Cemetery

"Elberfeld had three Jewish cemeteries... [one] on Weinberg after 1895." Benjamin Rosendahl Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to...

Category: Cemetery
Location: Wuppertal-Elberfeld (Elberfeld), North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 18, 2020

Old Cemetery

"Elberfeld had three Jewish cemeteries: [one] at Engelnberg an der Weissenburgstrasse after 1810," Benjamin Rosendahl Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 -...

Category: Cemetery
Location: Wuppertal-Elberfeld (Elberfeld), North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 18, 2020

Liberal synagogue

"Rabbi Levy Kleelberg inaugurated a new liberal synagogue on Genuegsamkeitsstrasse....On Pogrom Night, rioters vandalized the Orthodox synagogue and incinerated the...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Wuppertal-Elberfeld (Elberfeld), North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 18, 2020

Wuppertal-Elberfeld

First Jewish presence: 1694; peak Jewish population: 2,335 in 1925; Jewish population in 1933: 2,471 or 3,000 Wuppertal’s first known...

Category: Residential
Location: Wuppertal-Elberfeld (Elberfeld), North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 18, 2020

Wuppertal-Barmen Synagogue

" [In] 1895/96, when a synagogue was built in Barmen at 18 Scheurenstrasse (present-day Zur Scheuren); Ludwig Levy, the renowned...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Wuppertal-Barmen (Barmen), North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 18, 2020

Wuppertal-Barmen

First Jewish presence: 1812; peak Jewish population: 721 in 1925; Jewish population in 1933: 720 (see below) The earliest record...

Category: Residential
Location: Wuppertal-Barmen (Barmen), North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 18, 2020

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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

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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.

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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.