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Jewish
Berlin and Jewish Museum |
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In the charming neighborhoods surrounding the Hackescher Höfe, amidst winding streets and |
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hidden courtyards, one finds the traces of the old Jewish quarter. Walk from the places of Berlin’s |
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highly successful reform community preceding World War II to the streets of the Scheunenviertel, |
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where immigrants from Eastern Europe created a stehtl atmosphere in the heart of the metropolis |
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Travel from the gravesite of Moses Mendelssohn to the art galleries of the Jewish Renaissance |
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during the Weimar period. Hear stories of the experiences of Jewish families in Berlin during Nazi |
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times as well as the events of anti-Semitic persecution that reverberated throughout all of Europe. |
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Experience the modern-day resurgence of Jewish Berlin with a growing population of nearly 20,000 |
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members. Recommended tour duration: 2-3 hours. |
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“Led by individuals with close connections to Berlin’s Jewish community, these tours of Jewish Berlin’s past and present are warm and insightful. I give them my highest recommendations.” |
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Rabbi Yitzak Ehrenberg,
Chief Rabbi of Berlin |
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Selected Highlights: |
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• The Old Synagogue, the foundation stones of the community’s first Synagogue, built in 1717 after more than a century |
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of exile from Berlin following medieval pogroms. |
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• Jewish Cemetery, the original cemetery used by the community between1671 – 1828. The burial site of Moses Mendelssohn, |
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the famed Jewish thinker and philosopher known as the German Socrates, founder of the Haskalah movement |
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(Jewish Enlightenment), which explored a modern, secular Jewish identity. |
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• Bet-Zion Yeshiva, the first traditional yeshiva in Germany since World War II, founded in 2000 to respond primarily to the |
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immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union. This interesting campus is one of the clearest signs of the rejuvenation |
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of Jewish Berlin. |
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• Ahava Orphanage, the Zionist orphanage was founded after World War I to meet the needs of countless observant refugees |
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from Eastern Europe. Between 1934-8 it was transplanted to Haifa, Israel to escape the Nazi terror, where it still thrives today. |
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• The New Synagogue, the beautiful golden-domed Synagogue of the reform community built in 1864 once seated over 2,000 |
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people. Still a major landmark of Berlin today, its history touches upon the major periods of Berlin’s history from |
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the fall of the Kaiser to Crystallnacht to the East German Regime to present-day Jewish life. |
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• Jidass Yisrael, the synagogue of the modern-orthodox community that broke away from Berlin’s reformist trends, while |
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embracing secular culture. Hear the stories of famed Rabbis and Torah scholars, Rabbi Hildesheimer and Rabbi Weinberg, who |
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led the esteemed Rabbinic Seminary. A tour break in the kosher courtyard café of Jidass Yisrael is always a memorable event. |
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• The Rosenstrasse Protest, the site where Aryan women took to the streets to protest the abduction of their husbands and |
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family members in late-February1943. A story that reveals the connections of power between the Nazi leadership and ‘das Volk.’ |
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• Otto Weidt Workshop, where ‘Berlin’s Oscar Schindler’ helped deaf and blind Jews survive the Nazi terror employed in his |
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brush factory. Blind himself, the story of Otto Weidt’s courage has only recently been rediscovered. |
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*Continue your tour of Jewish Berlin or begin a new one at Daniel Libeskind’s architectural masterpiece: the world-renowned |
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Jewish Museum. We explore the details of the exhibition unseen by the casual visitor and gain an excellent overview of the rich |
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documentary. |
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Recommended tour duration: 2 hours. |
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