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The city is best known for its historic centre, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Jewish presence is thought to go back a long way, with Evora boasting one of the largest Portuguese communities in the 15th century. It was also one of the seats of the Inquisition, with 9,500 cases investigated over the centuries. The Inquisitor’s Palace was located opposite the . The Jewish ...
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Covilha is a town known as an important urban centre in the Portuguese interior. The Jewish presence probably dates back to the 12th century. There were three successive Jewish quarters in the town. The first, within the walls of the old town, near the . The second was adjacent to this quarter but outside the walls. The third was near Refugio and Meia Legua. One of the main economic ...
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The city of Coimbra is famous for its historic sites and the first Portuguese university founded there in 1290. It was also an important centre of Portuguese Judaism until the Inquisition. During the Inquisition, they suffered numerous persecutions, being one of the seats of the Inquisition. More than 11,000 cases were tried here between 1541 and 1820. Marranism developed, making Coimbra an ...
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Castelo Branco is known, as the first part of its name suggests, for its medieval buildings. The Jewish presence dates back to at least the 14th century. An organised Jewish community existed in the town until the advent of the Inquisition. Old buildings in the town’s Jewish quarter bear traces of this presence, such as a in Rua d’Ega. A was apparently located at 10 Rua de la ...
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Beja is a town in southern Portugal, famous for the battles that have been fought there since the time of Julius Caesar. It was also known as one of the places where rabbinical institutions were based in the 15th century. The Jewish presence dates back to at least the 12th century. Some very old stelae have been found, from Jewish cemeteries. One of these dates back to the 14th century and ...
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A crossroads of exoduses, the town of Almeida, which brings together several former small medieval municipalities, has welcomed many refugees throughout its history. This was also the case during the Second World War. During the Spanish Inquisition, an estimated 35,000 Jews passed through the border villages grouped together in Almeida. At the time, there was a Jewish quarter in Castelo ...
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R. do Brum 16, 9500-085 Ponta Delgada Tel : +351 508 646 0650 https://www.azoreansynagogue.org
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Rua do Campo Alegre 790, 4150-171 Porto Museu | Museu do Holocausto do Porto | Porto (mhporto.com)
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R. de Guerra Junqueiro 325, 4150-389 Porto Início | Museu Judaico do Porto (mjporto.com)
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Caminho Novo 9700, Angra do Heroísmo
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R. Baden Powell, Ponta Delgada
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Kålltorpsgatan, 416 52 Göteborg
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Vojaško pokopališče 1. svetovne vojne Štanjel
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Tisinec 58, 091 01 Tisinec
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13892/, Tehelná 6304/6, 080 01 Prešov
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Medziotoju g., Alytus
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Kauno g. 9, 62112 Alytus Tel : +370 315 49927
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Upytės g. 7-9, 84148 Joniškis Titulinis – Joniškio istorijos ir kultūros muziejus (joniskiomuziejus.lt)
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8 Kranto Street, Pakruojis Tel : +370 67527613 Sinagoga – Pakruojo biblioteka (rvb.lt)
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Alytus is a town on the river Nemunas, crossed by the main roads linking the country’s major cities. Today, there are few traces left of Jewish life in Alytus. The , built with yellow and red bricks, dates from 1911. The choice of bricks, which differ from the country’s wooden synagogues, was made following a fire that destroyed the town’s wooden synagogue some time earlier. ...
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The town of Joniskis is quite old, dating back to the 16th century. The Jewish presence in Joniskis dates back to the 18th century. They lived mainly around the main synagogues. Before the Shoah, the town’s Jewish population represented almost half of its inhabitants. The vast majority were massacred, as in the rest of the country. There are no Jews left in Joniskis today, but the small ...
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The town of Kedainiai dates back to the 14th century, making it one of the oldest in the country. Under the Kishkis family, who ruled the town from 1490, Jewish merchants were invited to settle. The city became a Calvinist centre in the mid-16th century, and Jews were granted civil rights and freedom of worship. They worked in a wide range of sectors, reflecting this successful integration: ...
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The town of Pakruojis is situated on the river Kruoja and was founded in the 15th century. The wooden synagogue dating from 1801 is probably the oldest of its kind in the country. Between the wars, the building was used as both a synagogue and a primary school. The Jewish population was massacred during the Holocaust. After the war, the building was converted into a cinema and then abandoned. ...
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Urla is located 25 miles from Izmir. It is assumed that the town’s Jewish community originated on the Aegean islands of Mora and Izmir. In 1840, Urla’s Jewish community numbered 40 families, rising to 90 by 1900. At the end of the Turkish War of Independence, the Greeks, forced to leave Urla, set fire to the town, thus displacing the majority of the Jews. The community emigrated ...
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