Jewish Berlin

An exploration of hundreds of years of history – tenacity, innovation, liberalism, dynamism, vibrancy, as well as persecution and recovery – in the city which is cited as having the world’s fastest-growing Jewish community outside Israel.

On this tour, let’s visit:

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the site of Berlin’s first synagogue and first Jewish cemetery

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the winding streets of the old Jewish quarter

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the grave of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn

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buildings which housed Jewish-run department stores a century ago

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numerous ‘stumble stone’ monuments to those persecuted in the Nazi era

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the former broom-making workshop for blind employees of Otto Weidt, ‘Berlin’s Schindler’

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Berlin’s first Jewish schools

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the ‘Kristallnacht’ memorial

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the home of Europe’s first female rabbi, Regina Jonas

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the monument to the 1943 uprising by women in defense of their Jewish husbands

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the New Synagogue with its spectacular golden domes