Jewish Hospital (Berlin)

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The Jewish Hospital Berlin-Wedding has been the third hospital of the Jewish Community Berlin. In  1756 the first hospital was founded in Berlin-Mitte, it was located in Oranienburger Straße. The second one was built in Auguststraße in 1861. Due to considerable increase of city residents and living Jews in the city, it was decided to build a new hospital in what was then Schulstraße, this hospital was opened on June 22, 1914 and survived both world wars.

Coffee house Zuntz sel. widow (Berlin)

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The Spandauer Kaffehaus  is a branch of the very famous Zuntz coffee houses. Founded by Rechel Zuntz and her son Leopold in Bonn in 1837 under the name A. Zuntz sel. Wwe. ("of the blessed Amschel Zuntz widow"), the traditional Zuntz roasting company existed for almost 150 years. It developed from a small grocery store into a nationally active company with locations in Berlin and Hamburg, among other places. The Zuntz coffee shops enjoyed great popularity and developed into an important branch of business, although they had originally been intended only as an advertising idea.

Jewish cemetery "Kiewer" (Berlin-Spandau)

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The Judenkiewer Spandau is the oldest known burial place of the Jewish community in Berlin, it was first mentioned in a document in 1314. The name "Kiewer" is most likely related to the Hebrew and Yiddish word קבר kejwer (grave). The Spandau Jewish community developed into the most important community between Breslau and Magdeburg in the High Middle Ages. The first documentary evidence of the existence of Jews in Spandau dates back to 1307, but gravestone inscriptions make it clear that there must have been a Jewish cemetery here as early as the mid-13th century.

Israelite Synagogue Congregation (Adass Yisroel) of Berlin

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The Jewish community "Adass Yisroel zu Berlin" was founded in 1869 in Berlin as a counter-movement to the reform-oriented Jewish Community of Berlin. The tradition-conscious community received official recognition from detuschen Kaiser and King of Prussia in 1885 as a religious community with equal rights to the Jewish Community of Berlin. Since 1940, the center of the community has been located at Tucholskystraße 40 in Berlin-Mitte (formerly Artilleriestraße 31). The community hall as well as synagogue and other facilities of the community are located there.

Jewish Museum Berlin

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The Jewish Museum Berlin opened in 2001, and since then has been one of the outstanding institutions in the European museum landscape. The exhibitions, the publications, the educational work and the diverse program of events are aimed at a broad audience in Germany and around the world. The museum focuses on the history of Jewish life as well as on Jewish everyday culture with contemporary relevance. The museum is located in Kreuzberg, not far from Checkpoint Charlie and the former Berlin Wall.

Rykestraße Synagogue (Berlin)

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The Conservative synagogue on Rykestraße is the only remaining Jewish place of worship in the eastern part of the city. It was finally inaugurated in 1904 after a ten-month construction period and served as a meeting place and place of prayer primarily for Jews who had moved to Eastern Europe. Attached to it were several Jewish school institutions. The synagogue, located in the backyard, continued to function as such until 1940, when it was misused by the National Socialists as a storage facility, among other things.

Hamburger & Littauer ready-made clothing store (Brunswick)

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Hamburger & Littauer was a store run by Jewish merchants Simon Hamburger and Nathan Littauer in Brunswick. The ready-made clothing store was founded in 1888 and was located in the house at Kohlmarkt 3-4 in the city center. The fashion store was very successful until the Second World War and Jewish boycott of Jewish stores during the Nazi regime. From May 1, 1933, the company was Aryanized and bore the name "Rosbach & Risse". The owners of the Hamburger & Littauer company were Paula Rosbach and Siegfried Fröhlich.

European Center for Jewish Music Hanover

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The European Center for Jewish Music (ECJM) has its  headquarters in the Villa Seligmann. It was founded in 1988 by Andor Izsák in Augsburg. Its tasks are the preservation, research and mediation of Jewish liturgical music as it was heard in European synagogues until 1938. It operates a database on synagogal music.

New Jewish Cemetery (Cottbus)

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The new Jewish cemetery was established in 1917/18 as the present part of the main municipal cemetery. The first person buried in the cemetery was Berta Hammerschmidt, who died in early November 1916. After the old Jewish cemetery was fully occupied in 1916 and a new one was still in the planning stage, the Chief Rabbi of Cottbus, Dr. Posner, had contacted Mayor Dreifert after her death on behalf of Judicial Councilor Abraham Hammerschmidt.

(Former) Jewish Girls' School (Berlin)

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The first Jewish girls' school for the Jewish community in Berlin was opened in 1835 in Mitte. After several changes of location, it moved to Auguststra&szlig 11 in 1930. The building had been completed two years earlier by Alexander Beer, the community's master builder at the time. He had the house built in the New Objectivity style. With an area of 3,000 m² it offered space for über 300 Schülerinnen.