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Homburg/Saar

First Jewish presence: 1686; peak Jewish population: 281 in 1824; Jewish population in 1933: 163 Although the Jewish community of...

Category: Residential
Location: Homburg/Saar (Homburg, Humborch), Saarland

Added Feb 05, 2020

Dillingen an der Saar

First Jewish presence: 1800; peak Jewish population: unknown; Jewish population in 1933: 135 The Jews of Dillingen belonged to the...

Category: Residential
Location: Dillingen an der Saar (Dillingen), Saarland

Added Feb 05, 2020

Brotdorf Synagogue

"Brotdorf Jews maintained...beginning in 1854, a synagogue on 52-54 Hausbacher Strasse... On Pogrom Night, the synagogue’s interior was destroyed, after...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Brotdorf, Saarland

Added Feb 05, 2020

Brotdorf

First Jewish presence: early 18th century; peak Jewish population: 75 in 1895; Jewish population in 1933: unknown (26 in 1932)...

Category: Residential
Location: Brotdorf, Saarland

Added Feb 05, 2020

Bosen

First Jewish presence: 17th century; peak Jewish population: 143 in 1849; Jewish population in 1933: 41 The history of Jewish...

Category: Residential
Location: Bosen, Saarland

Added Feb 05, 2020

Bettingen-Huettersdorf Synagogue

"The Huettersdorf-Lebach community maintained a synagogue in Huettersdorf, first mentioned in 1850...In violence that followed the return of the Saarland...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Bettingen-Huettersdorf (Hüttersdorf, Huettersdorf- Lebach), Saarland

Added Feb 05, 2020

Bettingen-Huettersdorf

First Jewish presence: 1724; peak Jewish population: unknown; Jewish population in 1933: unknown (1935: 5 - Lebach, 26 - Bettingen,...

Category: Residential
Location: Bettingen-Huettersdorf (Hüttersdorf, Huettersdorf- Lebach), Saarland

Added Feb 05, 2020

Zeven Cemetery

"Zeven’s tiny community continued, however, to maintain a Jewish cemetery on Kleine Ahe...Zeven’s Jewish cemetery was desecrated after the pogrom......

Category: Cemetery
Location: Zeven, Lower Saxony

Added Feb 05, 2020

Wunstorf Old Synagogue

"The community maintained a synagogue on Nordstrasse... which was replaced in 1913." Heidemarie Wawrzyn Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Wunstorf, Lower Saxony

Added Feb 05, 2020

Zeven

First Jewish presence: 1823; peak Jewish population: 22 in 1933 The Jewish community of Zeven, founded in 1842, included the...

Category: Residential
Location: Zeven, Lower Saxony

Added Feb 05, 2020

Wunstorf New Synagogue

"[community established in] 1913 a new house of worship on Kuesterstrasse, whose premises contained a mikveh, a school and a...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Wunstorf, Lower Saxony

Added Feb 05, 2020

Wunstorf

1st Jewish presence: 13th century (1st recorded in the 16th century); peak Jewish pop.: 88 in 1860 (3.9% of the...

Category: Residential
Location: Wunstorf, Lower Saxony

Added Feb 04, 2020

Wolfenbuettel New Synagogue

"In 1893, Wolfenbuettel’s Jewish community, which belonged to the Braunschweig rabbinate, inaugurated a larger synagogue on Lessingstrasse...On Pogrom Night, rioters...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Wolfenbuettel (Wolfenbüttel), Lower Saxony

Added Feb 04, 2020

Wolfenbuettel Old Synagogue

"From 1781 until 1893, Wolfenbuettel was home to an 80- seat synagogue at 12 Harzstrasse. The synagogue had been founded...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Wolfenbuettel (Wolfenbüttel), Lower Saxony

Added Feb 04, 2020

Wilhelmshaven Synagogue

"In 1915, local Jews replaced their prayer room with a synagogue on the corner of Boersenstrasse and Parkstrasse; the building...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony

Added Feb 04, 2020

Wilhelmshaven

First Jewish presence: in or around the year 1870; peak Jewish population: 200 in the 1920s (see below); Jewish population...

Category: Residential
Location: Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony

Added Feb 04, 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.

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.