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Neheim Cemetery

"Local Jews established... a cemetery (near the Moehne-River) in 1835." Heidemarie Wawrzyn Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to...

Category: Cemetery
Location: Neheim (Neheim-Hüsten), North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Mar 18, 2020

Neheim Synagogue

"[In] 1876...a synagogue was inaugurated on Mendener Strasse...On Pogrom Night, rioters destroyed the synagogue’s ritual objects, Torah scrolls and furniture......

Category: Synagogue
Location: Neheim (Neheim-Hüsten), North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Mar 18, 2020

Neheim

First Jewish presence: 17th century; peak Jewish population: 103 in 1910; Jewish population in 1933: 62 The earliest reference to...

Category: Residential
Location: Neheim (Neheim-Hüsten), North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Mar 18, 2020

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Jason Guberman

Executive Director

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

Project Director

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

Researcher

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

Photographer

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

Researcher

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.