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Breisach Altbreisach

First Jewish presence: unknown; peak Jewish population: 572 in 1839; Jewish population in 1933: 23 The history of Jewish Breisach...

Category: Residential
Location: Breisach (Altbreisach), Baden-Wuerttemberg

Added Apr 30, 2020

Braunsbach Cemetery

"The Jews of Braunsbach established...a cemetery in 1738." Esther Sarah Evans Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the...

Category: Cemetery
Location: Braunsbach, Baden-Wuerttemberg

Added Apr 30, 2020

Braunsbach Rabbinate

"Between 1832 and 1913, a district rabbinate housing a school and living quarters for the local rabbi was based at...

Category: Bet Din/Rabbinical Court
Location: Braunsbach, Baden-Wuerttemberg

Added Apr 30, 2020

Braunsbach

First Jewish presence: 1606; peak Jewish population: 2,893 in 1843; Jewish population in 1933: 39 The Jews of Braunsbach established...

Category: Residential
Location: Braunsbach, Baden-Wuerttemberg

Added Apr 30, 2020

Binau Synagogue

"This community, which belonged to the regional rabbinate of Mosbach from 1827 onwards, built a synagogue with living quarters and...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Binau, Baden-Wuerttemberg

Added Apr 30, 2020

Binau

First Jewish presence: late 1700s or early 1800s; peak Jewish population: 146 in 1839; Jewish population in 1933: 20 This...

Category: Residential
Location: Binau, Baden-Wuerttemberg

Added Apr 30, 2020

Baisingen

First Jewish presence: 1596; peak Jewish population: 238 in 1884; Jewish population in 1933: 86 The first Jews of Baisingen...

Category: Residential
Location: Baisingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg

Added Apr 30, 2020

Adelsheim Synagogue

"A new house of worship was inaugurated at 1 Tanzbergstrasse/Untere Austrasse; the grand Duke of Baden facilitated the process by...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Adelsheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg

Added Apr 30, 2020

Adelsheim

First Jewish presence: Middle Ages; peak Jewish population: 70 in 1885; Jewish population in 1933: 35 Although Jews had lived...

Category: Residential
Location: Adelsheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg

Added Apr 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.

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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.

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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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