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Tilsit

First Jewish presence: 1811; peak Jewish population: approximately 800 in 1928; Jewish population in 1933: approximately 640 In early 1840,...

Category: Residential
Location: Sovetsk (Советск, Tilžė, Tylża, Tilsit), Kaliningrad

Added May 20, 2020

Stallupoenen

First Jewish presence: unknown; peak Jewish population: 132 in 1880; Jewish population in 1933: 48 The Jewish community of Stallupoenen...

Category: Residential
Location: Nesterov (Нестеров, Stallupönen, Stallupoenen, Stalupėnai, Stołupiany, Ebenrode), Kaliningrad

Added May 20, 2020

Insterburg

First Jewish presence: 1834; peak Jewish population: 363 in 1880; Jewish population in 1933: 275 The Jews of Insterburg (present-day...

Category: Residential
Location: Chernyakhovsk (Черняховск, Insterburg), Kaliningrad

Added May 20, 2020

Eydtkuhnen

First Jewish presence: early 1800s; peak Jewish population: 350 in 1880; Jewish population in 1933: under 90 Eydtkuhnen (present-day Chernyshevkoye,...

Category: Residential
Location: Chernyshevskoye (Eydtkuhnen, Чернышевское), Kaliningrad

Added May 20, 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.