Goellheim New Synagogue

Synagogue - Goellheim (Göllheim), Rhineland-Palatinate

"Later, in 1849/50, a new synagogue was built on Berggasse (renovated in 1911/12)...The synagogue’s interior was destroyed on Pogrom Night; later, in 1939 or 1941, the building was appropriated by the town...The synagogue building was returned to the Jewish community of Rhineland Pfalz after the war. Sold to the municipality in 1970, the dilapidated building was finally torn down in 1971...Memorial stones were unveiled in Goellheim in 1979 and 1988; and a Mauer der Begegnung (a “Meeting Wall”)—it was constructed from the synagogue’s ruins—was unveiled in the center of town."

Heidemarie Wawrzyn

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

Notes

Sources: Alemannia Judaica, www.alemannia-judaica.de LFD-RP, Synagogen Internet Archiv, www.synagogen.info www.goellheim.de/agenda/agendaweg.htm

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Date Added	Apr 20, 2020
Category	Synagogue
Country	DE
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
City	Goellheim (Göllheim)
Exhibits	Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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Goellheim New Synagogue

Heidemarie Wawrzyn

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

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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.

Chrystie Sherman

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