Jewish religion and culture
WHS with physical remains of Jewish religion or culture. These may include synagogues, cemeteries, and specific town quarters such as mellahs. Mikveh (ritual baths) are gathered in a separate connection.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Aleppo | Central Synagogue | |
| Amsterdam Canal Ring | The large Portuguese Synagogue is actually outside the core zone, but the canal area includes minor synagogues and jewish almshouses | |
| Aquileia | Claim that mosaics in the "Paleo Christian museum" are from a synagogue | |
| Arab-Norman Palermo | ... fruitful coexistence of people of different origins (Muslim, Byzantine, Latin, Jewish, Lombard, and French) (OUV) | |
| Asmara | Asmara synagogue | |
| Banska Stiavnica | synagogue | |
| Bardejov Town | ||
| Berat and Gjirokastra | Sabbatai Zevi's Tomb in Berat | |
| Biblical Tells | ||
| Bridgetown | Synagogue, established in 1654 | |
| Budapest | Medieval synagogue on Buda hill | |
| Bukhara | Jewish quarter | |
| Caceres | Jewish quarter | |
| Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin | Jewish graves | |
| Cesky Krumlov | Synagogue | |
| Cologne Cathedral | "Jewish tablets Embedded in the interior wall are a pair of tablets on which are carved the provisions worked out by Archbishop Englebert II (1262-67) under which Jews were permitted to reside in Cologne" | |
| Colonia del Sacramento | Mikveh | |
| Colonies of Benevolence | In the Veenhuizen Colony, a synagogue was built in 1839. "In 1894 the synagogue was converted into an office, although the main design of its exterior has been preserved." Veenhuizen also has "remnants of (a) Jewish cemetery (...), with one remaining gravestone". (Nomination file, p. 66, 68) | |
| Cordoba | ||
| Corfu | Scuola Greca Synagogue | |
| Coro and its Port | Synagogue | |
| Damascus | Several synagogues, among those the French Synagogue | |
| Delos | Oldest synagogue in the diaspora (disputed; at least "an assembly hall for Jews") | |
| Djerba | Includes "the vestiges of Hara Sghira, a Jewish residential neighbourhood dating back to the 10th century CE, and includes remains of a Jewish school, cemeteries, and a number of synagogues", as well as the Synagogue El Ghriba. | |
| Dubrovnik | Old Synagogue | |
| Fasil Ghebbi | Fasil Ghebbi and the other remains in Gondar city demonstrate a remarkable interface between internal and external cultures, with cultural elements related to Ethiopian Orthodox Church,Ethiopian Jews and Muslims. (UNESCO website) | |
| Ferrara | Synagogue and jewish cemetery | |
| Florence | Tempio Maggiore (Great Synagogue) | |
| Funerary and memory sites of the First World War | ME05 Douaumont French Ossuary, National French Necropolis, Jewish Monument and Muslim Monument | |
| Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz | Wörlitz Synagogue: "built in 1790 by order of Duke Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau. ..The duke, a follower of the Enlightenment, had the synagogue built as an expression of his tolerance policy but also as an ornament for his gardens." | |
| Great Spa Towns of Europe | Jewish cemeteries in Bad Kissingen, Karlovy Vary and Mariánské Lázně | |
| Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town | ||
| Historic Cairo | Ben Azra Synagogue | |
| Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt | ||
| Jodensavanne | "two component parts that illustrate early Jewish colonisation attempts in the New World" (AB ev) | |
| Kraków | "The medieval town of Kazimierz, which includes the suburb of Stradom (chartered in 1335), was shaped by the Catholic and Jewish faiths and their respective cultures and customs." (OUV) | |
| Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou | Mellah | |
| L'viv | Ruins of the synagogue at the city walls | |
| La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle | Very fine Neo-Byzantine synagogue from 1896. At the time La Chaux-de-Fonds had 850 recorded Jewish inhabitants | |
| Lübeck | historic synagogue next to St.-Anne-Kloster | |
| M'Zab Valley | There was a Jewish presence in Ghardaia from at least the Middle ages. In 1962 around 2700 of the. by then. remaining 3000 were evacuated in a special operation at the time of Algerian independence because of fears for their safety. A Jewish cemetery and the ruins of a Synagogue can be seen in/around Ghardaia. See link | |
| Mantua and Sabbioneta | Sabbioneta - Jewish ghetto | |
| Masada | ||
| Mazagan | Jewish quarter | |
| Medina of Essaouira | Jewish quarter | |
| Medina of Fez | Mellah + Rue des Mérinides + Synagogue Ibn Danan + Cimetière juif | |
| Medina of Marrakesh | Jewish cemetery | |
| Medina of Tétouan | Jewish mellah | |
| Meknes | Jewish quarter | |
| Mexico City and Xochimilco | The Sinagoga Histórica, also known as Templo Nidjei Israel, at Justo Sierra 71, and founded in 1941, is the third synagogue established in the city and the first founded by Ashkenazi Jews. Since its reopening in 2009, it has acted as a community center and a center for cultural and religious activities. The neighborhood of Merced -at the historic center- held a great community of Jews from the start of the XX century. | |
| Minaret of Jam | Tombstones written in Hebrew, probably from a nearby Jewish cemetery, which indicate the presence of a sizable Jewish community | |
| Modernist Kaunas | Choral Synagogue | |
| Naples | Sinagoga di Napoli | |
| Necropolis of Bet She'arim | associated with Rabbi Judah the Patriarch, the spiritual and political leader of the Jewish people (OUV) | |
| Nice | Synagogue + a Jewish cemetery on the Colline du Château. | |
| Old City of Acre | Muallaq Mosque (former Old Synagogue) | |
| Old City of Jerusalem | ||
| Olinda | Rua dos Judeus - site of first synagogue in the Americas 1641. During the Dutch rule there was a lot of religious freedom, and many Sephardic Jews originally from Portugal migrated to Olinda. With the return of the Jewish-unfriendly Portuguese rule in 1654, the Jewish community was given 90 days to sell off their goods and leave on the first available ship. Many of the houses built by Jewish merchants still stand today on what was once called "Rua dos Judeus" (Jews' Street), | |
| Paphos | Agia Solomoni catacomb church is believed to have been once the synagogue of the Roman Paphos. | |
| Paramaribo | Neve Shalom Synagogue 1665 | |
| Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) | Jewish cemetery (adjacent to the Piazza del Duomo) | |
| Prague | ||
| Provins | "The oldest building in the town is probably the 12th century Maison Romane (now the Museum), constructed in coursed dressed stone. Its location in the former Jewish quarter suggests that it may originally have been a rabbinical school or even a synagogue." | |
| Quedlinburg | ||
| Rabat | Mellah (Jewish Ghetto) | |
| Rammelsberg and Goslar | Jewish cemetery | |
| Regensburg | Former Synagogue at Am Brixener Hof 2 | |
| Riga | Synagogue | |
| Rome | Jewish ghetto | |
| Saint Catherine Area | ||
| Samarkand | Gumbaz Synagogue and Jewish Mahalla | |
| Segovia | Old Main Synagogue | |
| ShUM Sites | ||
| Siena | Synagogue (1786) in the via delle Scotte | |
| Simien National Park | Historically they were inhabited by Ethiopian Jews (the Beta Israel), who after repeated attacks by the zealous Christian Emperors in the 15th century withdrew from the province of Dembiya into the more defensible Semien mountains.(Wiki) | |
| Spissky Hrad and Levoca | Synagogue at Spissky Podhradie (the oldest in Slovakia) | |
| Split | Synagogue in Diocletian's Palace | |
| Strasbourg | Judegass, where the Jewish ghetto used to exist | |
| Susa | Esther Scroll | |
| Syracuse | The Jewish community settled in the Giudecca quarter on Ortygia until 1492, having built the synagogue and mikvehs in that area. (wiki) | |
| Tauric Chersonese | The basilica was probably built in the 6th century on the site of an earlier temple, assumed by historians to be a synagogue, itself replacing a small temple dating from the early days of Christianity (wiki) | |
| Telc | Jewish street, with its synagogue now a police station | |
| Thessalonika | Hagios Demterios was renovated after the Great Fire of 1917 using tombstones from the Jewish cemetery | |
| Tokaji Wine Region | Jewish cemetery | |
| Toledo | ||
| Trebic | ||
| Upper Middle Rhine Valley | Koblenz destroyed Jewish cemetery had a small synagogue which is still in use. Plus: The Rabbi of Bacherach by Heinrich Heine | |
| Urbino | "The synagogue is located at the entrance to a narrow street, near the city walls and is distinguished by an inscription from the mid '500 in which the hymn "Eternal God", written by Rabbi Mordechai Dato, identified the ritual of local Italian Jews and those coming from Spain, Sephardic Jews, or Germany, Ashkenazi Jews." | |
| Venice and its Lagoon | Jewish quarter | |
| Vienna | Stadttempel, Underground medieval synagogue | |
| Vilnius | ||
| Wachau Cultural Landscape | Jewish cemetery in Krems | |
| White City of Tel-Aviv | Synagogue at Bialik Square | |
| Willemstad | Snoga Synagogue, the oldest in the Americas | |
| Zabid | Synagogue | |
| Zamość | Sepharadi Synagogue | |
| Žatec – Landscape of Hops | "Further socio-cultural features include a synagogue (built 1871-1872), which testifies to the Jewish community’s former involvement in hop production and trade" (AB ev) |
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