The Jewish Cultural Quarter consists of the Jewish Museum, Jewish Museum junior, the Portuguese Synagogue, the Hollandsche Schouwburg, and the National Holocaust Museum.
The Jewish Cultural Quarter invites its visitors to acquaint themselves with Jewish culture and history, to deepen their existing knowledge, and to think actively about the subject of cultural diversity. The basic principle is to make the Jewish story accessible in a positive way to as much of the general public as possible.
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The Mansion Blocks in Szeged
The palace is Szeged’s Jewish architectural heritage
The House of Eternity
Among the professions on the tombstones, you will “find” rabbis and Talmudic scholars, newspaper owners, writers, editors, altruistic supporters of Hungarian arts and even captains of Hungarian industry graced with the title of Baron. The cemetery is a memorial of a peaceful, prosperous era for Hungarian Jews.
Mexico City Virtual Tour
Through this video you will visit the amazing historic Synagogue Justo Sierra located in the old Jewish Quarter of Mexico, and learn about its history and its beautiful places.
Let’s continue traveling together by this virtual tours!
We invite you to travel, meet and learn from your home-sofa.
Anne Frank’s House in Amsterdam
In 1942, Anne Frank’s family went into hiding for two years. In her diary, Anne looked back wistfully at her time on “the Merry”, as she called the square. The Anne Frank House is a writer’s house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The building is located on a canal called the Prinsengracht, close to the Westerkerk, in central Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
The Town of Venosa
Venosa is considered one of the most beautiful burghs in Italy, and it is set on the hills in Basilicata, and it preserves splendid monuments of its past, so that it feels like being surrounded by a medieval atmosphere. Before this epoch, Venosa was already the important city from which comes the Latin poet Horace, and it has a long story to tell about the times in which was a roman colony, and places to discover.
Virtual Krakow
The first recorded history of Jews in Kraków, Poland dates back to the 13th century. Jews began to own land and homes in their quarter and in neighboring quarters of the city in 1312. The city was an important scholarly center during the Golden Age of Polish Jewry and was home to prominent rabbis such as Rabbi Joel Sirkes (1561-1640), known as the “Bach” after his halachic work (published 1631-1640); and Rabbi Moses Isserles (1530-1572/82), author of the Mapah, glosses on the Shulchan Aruch of Rabbi Joseph Caro. Even after the events of 1648-1649 the city remained a Jewish center until the Holocaust. Rabbis included Rabbi Samuel Ehrenfeld (1835-1883), known as the Chassan Sofer. During the Nazi occupation, most of the 68,000 Jews of Krakow were expelled from the city (1940), 15,000 remained in the Kraków Ghetto until 1943 when they were deported to Belzec extermination camp, where they were murdered.
A Walk in the Marais
A visit to the Marais, the historic Jewish quarter of Paris, now a fashionable neighborhood of boutiques and cafes. With Samuel Ghiles-Meilhac, historian, Jewish scholar and resident of the Marais. In this colorful neighborhood of narrow streets and grand buildings, we find remnants of a Jewish culture that once characterized the district.
Jewish Buenos Aires
A visit to Latin America’s largest and most vibrant Jewish community. In one of Buenos Aires most popular plazas, a Jewish festival draws thousands of visitors. The Buenos Aires Jewish community was established in 1862 and held its first traditional Jewish wedding in 1868. The first synagogue was inaugurated in 1875. The Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe who settled in Argentina were called rusos (Russians) by the local population.
The Great Synagogue of Vilnius
Before World War II, there were 135 synagogues in Vilnius, but the Great Synagogue was the centre of spiritual and cultural life for Litvaks. Today, the remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilna are an important part of the city’s cultural heritage. The Great Synagogue of Vilna was founded at the end of the 16th century when the Litvak community was granted the right to attend their houses of prayer. The first house of prayer was wooden. In 1633, King Wladyslaw IV Vasa allowed a brick synagogue to be built in the Jewish Quarter. The synagogue couldn’t be taller than the nearby churches, so the building’s architects found a creative solution and built a couple of floors below ground level. Outside, the synagogue looked to be about three stories tall, but inside it was over five stories. The main prayer hall was square and could hold 3000 people, but this synagogue was well ahead of all other similar structures of the time, and could host up to 5,000 worshipers. The architectural monument survived World War II despite being severely damaged, but was later destroyed under Soviet rule. Three original pieces from the Great Synagogue of Vilna survived the destruction and are now on display at the Vilna Gaon Jewish Museum: a door of the Holy Ark, a reader’s desk, and a bas-relief of the Ten Commandments.
