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Bartenstein

First Jewish presence: 1737; peak Jewish population: 86 in 1880; Jewish population in 1933: approximately 60 Although Jews were officially...

Category: Residential
Location: Bartoszyce (Bartenstein), Warmia-Masuria

Added May 20, 2020

Allenstein

First Jewish presence: 1820; peak Jewish population: 612 in 1925; Jewish population in 1933: 448 Jews founded a community in...

Category: Residential
Location: Olsztyn (Allenstein), Warmia-Masuria

Added May 20, 2020

Waldenburg Synagogue

"Finally, in 1878, when the Jews of Waldenburg were permitted to establish an autonomous community, plans were made for the...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Waldenburg (Wałbrzych), Lower Silesia

Added Feb 03, 2020

Waldenburg

First Jewish presence: 1830; peak Jewish population: 328 in 1880; Jewish population in 1933: 195 It was not until 1830...

Category: Residential
Location: Waldenburg (Wałbrzych), Lower Silesia

Added Feb 03, 2020

Gleiwitz

First Jewish presence: approximately 14th century; peak Jewish population: 2,009 in 1867 (16% of the total population); Jewish pop. in...

Category: Residential
Location: Gleiwitz (Gliwice), Silesia

Added Jan 30, 2020

Sagan Cemetery

"In 1813, the community consecrated a cemetery on Heideberg, later moving it to Lessingstrasse (present-day Berka Joselewicza)...A memorial plaque was...

Category: Cemetery
Location: Sagan (Żagań), Lubusz

Added Jan 30, 2020

Sagan

First Jewish presence: approximately 12th-13th century; peak Jewish population: 170 in 1880; Jewish population in 1933: 78 Jews settled in...

Category: Residential
Location: Sagan (Żagań), Lubusz

Added Jan 30, 2020

Reichenbach Synagogue

"In 1875, the community built a three-story synagogue... In 1945, 2,600 Jews lived in in Reichenbach, and Konrad Springer returned...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Reichenbach (Dzierżoniów), Lower Silesia

Added Jan 30, 2020

Reichenbach

First Jewish presence: 1367; peak Jewish population: 185 in 1871; Jewish population in 1933: 67 Although Jews had lived in...

Category: Residential
Location: Reichenbach (Dzierżoniów), Lower Silesia

Added Jan 30, 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.

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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.