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Linz Am Rhein School & Community Center

"The community center at 20, Neustrasse (1841) housed a private Jewish school. Classified as a Jewish elementary school in 1881,...

Category: School
Location: Linz Am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate

Added May 05, 2020

Lauchheim School and Mikveh

"Other communal institutions included a Jewish school and a mikveh, both of which were built on the corner of 15...

Category: School
Location: Lauchheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg

Added Apr 30, 2020

Binningen School

"The nearby Jewish school (63 Hauptstrasse) was closed down at the end of the 19th century,...On Pogrom Night, the interiors...

Category: School
Location: Binningen, Rhineland-Palatinate

Added Apr 20, 2020

Elementary School

"Other communal institutions included a Jewish school, founded before 1820, that became an elementary school in 1863; the school was...

Category: School
Location: Niedermarsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Mar 18, 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

Ahlen Elementary School

"We also know that Ahlen was home to a Jewish elementary school between 1835 and 1939. The school—it had been...

Category: School
Location: Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 06, 2020

Jacobson Schule

"Established in Seesen in 1801, the Jacobs School, which offered religious studies and vocational training, enrolled Jewish and, later, Christian...

Category: School
Location: Seesen, Lower Saxony

Added Jan 30, 2020

Meppen Synagogue & School

"In 1849, the Jews of Meppen inaugurated a synagogue on Nagelshof (later, 17, Nagelshof ), in the back of which...

Category: School
Location: Meppen, Lower Saxony

Added Jan 28, 2020

Hanover School

"In 1876, the community purchased a building at Luetzowstrasse, which housed a Jewish school and administrative offices." Benjamin Rosendahl Copyright:...

Category: School
Location: Hanover (Hannover), Lower Saxony

Added Jan 28, 2020

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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.

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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.

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