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A guided tour of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Frankfurt, with 2,000 gravestones dating back to the middle ages.

Local amateur historian Peter Conrad will lead a tour of the small Jewish cemetery.

The Jewish cemetery in Rodalben was inaugurated on February 24, 1876 “occasionally for the burial of the widow Bähr,” according to Conrad. Berta Katz was the last person to be buried in the cemetery on September 12, 1936. Today the cemetery belongs to the Jewish community of Rheinpfalz (Speyer). According to an agreement between the federal government, the federal states and Jewish organizations, the city receives a grant of 1,500 euros a year for the maintenance of the site.

The Jewish cemetery on Klinkenberger Weg is hidden behind a hedge. According to Conrad, it is the “last remaining testimony of the Jewish community in Rodalben” and a memorial to history. 

In case of bad weather, the tour will take place September 6 at 3 p.m.

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The Jewish Cemetery of Haguenau is one of the oldest cemeteries in Alsace and has 3,200 graves, some  dating from the 17th century. 
The cemetery was enlarged in 1766 and 1872. During World War II, its walls and doors were gutted, and graves were also destroyed.

Two guided tours of the cemetery are organized as part of the European Day of Jewish Culture.

Places are limited, registration is required.

As part of the European Heritage Days, there will be a guided tour of the  exhibit Baroque Synagogues in the Czech Lands. The exhibition is complemented by panels mapping the history of Prostějov synagogues and Jewish prayer houses and the Prostějov Jewish community in general. During the guided tour, you will learn more about some of the exhibited objects. For example, part of the rosette stained glass window, which was saved from the destroyed Olomouc synagogue.

The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Museum and Gallery in Prostějov, the Jewish Museum in Prague, the Statutory City of Prostějov, the Respect and Tolerance Association, the Comenius Museum in Přerov and the Hanácký Jeruzalém Association. The guided tour will be the curator of the exhibition Filip Gregor from the Prostějov Museum.

Guided tour of the Small Synagogue, which functioned between 1840 and 1884. It now is a Jewish museum.

Here’s the history of the synagogue from the web site https://juedisches-leben.erfurt.de/jl/en/19-century/small_synagogue/index.html

On 10 July 1840 the Jewish community consecrated the Small Synagogue. It was used as a house of worship for only 44 years, until 1884, since the community was growing fast in the 19^th century. The community built the Great Synagogue at today’s Juri-Gagarin-Ring and sold the Small Synagogue to a merchant. He used the house as a storage facility and production building. In 1918 the municipality installed apartments. Interest in the Jewish heritage grew in the 1980s. The town had the building history of the synagogue researched and the building restored. Building researchers found the mikveh as well as the Torah shrine and the women’s balcony. So the prayer hall presents itself today in the almost original condition. The Small Synagogue serves today as a meeting centre and shows an exhibition on Jewish life in Erfurt in the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

The Jewish Cemetery of Haguenau is one of the oldest cemeteries in Alsace and has 3,200 graves, some  dating from the 17th century. 
The cemetery was enlarged in 1766 and 1872. During World War II, its walls and doors were gutted, and graves were also destroyed.

Two guided tours of the cemetery are organized as part of the European Day of Jewish Culture.

Places are limited, registration is required.

A tour of the permanent exhibition Jewish history and heritage in the Old Synagogue, Essen.

The exhibition has five different subject areas: “sources of Jewish tradition;  Jewish festivals;  the Jewish way of life;  the history of the building; and the history of the Jewish community in Essen.

Registration is not required, by visitors must wear face masks and maintain social distance rules.

Aside from the tour,  the permanent exhibition is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

(The featured photo is by Baikonur, via wikimedia commons CC BY-SA 3.0)

Guided tour of the synagogue on Roonstrasse, Cologne, the only surviving synagogue of the five that once stood in the city.

Tickets must be booked here — https://www.koelnticket.de/exklusive+f%c3%bchrung+j%c3%bcdische+synagoge+nur+buchbar+%c3%bcber+die+hotline+02212801+neues+datum-ticket-67/?evid=2334775&referer_info=hl&tId=&pageId=67

The official reopening ceremony of the Great synagogue in Plzen, Czech Republic, following  a three-year restoration of the synagogue interior and nearby Rabbi’s house. A permanent exhibition on Jewish monuments in the Pilsen region will be opened, in the women’s gallery. It is based on the photographs of Radovan Kodera.

A procession  will bring a Torah scroll  from the Old to the Great Synagogue and ceremoniously place it in the ark.

Following will be a ceremonial program with speeches by the Culture Minister, the head of the tiny local Jewish community, and others. A concert will feature compositions inspired by Jewish prayers, adapted for the occasion.