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Total population; 116,000 to 225,000 [1]: Regions with significant populations; Germany Israel, United States, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the United ...
The Jewish Museum Berlin (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) was opened in 2001 and is the largest Jewish museum in Europe. On 3,500 square metres (38,000 square feet) of floor space, the museum presents the history of the Jews in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day, with new focuses and new scenography.
Interior of the Portuguese Synagogue, Amsterdam in 1695 by Romeyn de Hooghe. When the Protestant Dutch Republic revolted against Catholic Spain in what became the Eighty Years' War, Portuguese and Spanish Jews forced to convert to Catholicism (conversos or Marranos) began migrating to the northern provinces of the Netherlands. [53]
The earliest reference to Jewish settlement along the Rhine dates from the year 321 in Cologne, and it is assumed that Jews also lived in Speyer in Late Antiquity.With the collapse of state and church administration in the Migration Period and the decline of the urban Roman lifestyle, it is also assumed that Jewish communities dispersed.
Ni soi judio, ni vengo de judaizantes" (I write this history dispassionately and without craft, as concerning things that do not touch me. I am not a Jew, nor am I of Jewish descent.) Castro's book was published under the title, Historia de los Judios en España, desde los Tiempos de su Establecimiento hasta Principios del Presente Siglo ...
Christina Anstead and Ant Anstead attend the Los Angeles Special Screening Of Discovery's "Serengeti" at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on July 23, 2019, in Beverly Hills, California.
In early modern Europe, particularly in Germany, a court Jew (German: Hofjude, Yiddish: הויף איד, romanized: hoyf id) or court factor (German: Hoffaktor, Yiddish: קאַורט פאַקטאַר, romanized: kourt faktor) was a Jewish banker who handled the finances of, or lent money to, royalty and nobility.
stiftung-denkmal.de The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe [ 1 ] ( German : Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas ), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal ), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany , designed by architect Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold .