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Rendsburg

First Jewish presence: 1693; peak Jewish population: 292 in 1835; Jewish population in 1933: 30 The Jews of Rendsburg established...

Category: Residential
Location: Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein

Added Jan 23, 2020

Luebeck

First Jewish presence: 1645; peak Jewish population: 670 in 1900; Jewish population in 1933: 497 Jews were not permitted to...

Category: Residential
Location: Luebeck (Lubeca Lübeck ליבק), Schleswig-Holstein

Added Jan 23, 2020

Kiel

First Jewish presence: 17th century; peak Jewish population 613 in 1933 The earliest available records of a Jewish presence in...

Category: Residential
Location: Kiel (Kielia, Kilonia, Kyle), Schleswig-Holstein

Added Jan 23, 2020

Elmshorn

First Jewish presence: late 17th century; peak Jewish presence: 204 in 1835 and 1838; Jewish population in 1933: 55 In...

Category: Residential
Location: Elmshorn (אלמסהורן), Schleswig-Holstein

Added Jan 23, 2020

Bad Segeberg

First Jewish presence: 1739; peak Jewish population: 91 in 1871; Jewish population in 1933: 20 The community established a prayer...

Category: Residential
Location: Bad Segeberg (Sebarg), Schleswig-Holstein

Added Jan 23, 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.