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Hat factory Goldschmidt with residential house

Location hat factory Goldschmidt with residential house

The Jewish cemetery Reckendorf is located in a community in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and was built in 1798. It is located west of Reckendorf on a forest slope and can be reached via the chapel path branching off from the Lourdes Chapel on the main road.

The Jewish cemetery Autenhausen is located in a district of the town Seßlach in the Upper Franconian county Coburg. The cemetery was established in 1839 southeast of the village. In the beginning it also served as a burial place for the Jewish community in nearby Coburg. It was occupied until 1920. The rectangular complex with almost 100 graves is bordered by a perimeter wall and is now a listed building.

The Jewish Community of Berlin is organized as a unitary congregation that operates six community synagogues, both Orthodox and liberal. Since 2006, Berlin has also had a Sephardic synagogue. Three rabbis of the Jewish community and several other rabbis, including a woman again since 2007, work in Berlin. With more than 10,000 members (March 1, 2018) the Jewish Community of Berlin is the largest Jewish community in Germany.

The Berlin-based Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (HWJ) existed as an academic research and study institution from 1872 to 1942. Its purpose was to enable students of all faiths to conduct impartial research on Judaism.

For the summer semester 1930/31, 109 regular students were counted and the library comprised about 55,000, later even 60,000 books. Rabbi Nathan Peter Levinson was one of the last students (along with Leo Trepp and Leo Baeck). In an obituary for one of his teachers, he writes: