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Aurich

First Jewish presence: 1635; peak Jewish population: 406 in 1885; Jewish population in 1933: 398 In 1810, the Jews of...

Category: Residential
Location: Aurich, Lower Saxony

Added Jan 27, 2020

Adelebsen

First Jewish presence: 1675; peak Jewish population: 192 in 1861; Jewish population in 1933: 32 Although individual Jewish merchants settled...

Category: Residential
Location: Adelebsen, Lower Saxony

Added Jan 27, 2020

Achim

First Jewish presence: 1746; peak Jewish population: 73 in 1907; Jewish population in 1933: 37 The Jewish community of Achim...

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Location: Achim, Lower Saxony

Added Jan 27, 2020

Goerlitz

First Jewish presence: 13th century; peak Jewish population: 691 in 1885; Jewish population in 1933: 376 Records suggest that the...

Category: Residential
Location: Goerlitz (Gorlicium-Germaniae, Görlitz, גרליץ), Saxony

Added Jan 23, 2020

Dresden

First Jewish presence: 11th or 12th century; peak Jewish population: 5,120 in 1925; Jewish population in 1933: 4,675 (0.7% of...

Category: Residential
Location: Dresden (Dresda Dresde Dresdn Drezno דרזדן דרעזדן), Saxony

Added Jan 23, 2020

Chemnitz

First Jewish presence: 1357; peak Jewish population: 3,500 in 1925; Jewish population in 1933: 2,387 The earliest available record of...

Category: Residential
Location: Chemnitz (\"Chemnicium Chemnicas קמניץ קעמניץ) , Saxony

Added Jan 23, 2020

Bautzen

First Jewish presence: 14th century; peak Jewish population: 100 in 1925; Jewish population in 1933: 73 The history of Jewish...

Category: Residential
Location: Bautzen (Budissa באוצן ) , Saxony (Sachsen)

Added Jan 23, 2020

Annaberg

First Jewish presence: 1839; peak Jewish population: 147 in 1907; Jewish population in 1933: 58 Beginning in 1554, Jews were...

Category: Residential
Location: Annaberg, Saxony (Sachsen)

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.