About us

The project 

Our vision is to locate Jewish life at the center of society. 

As a cooperative community project of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Jewish Places visualizes German-Jewish life on an interactive map. 

At Jewish Places, the community takes center stage: we invite them to collect and add content. The website preserves and expands that knowledge and provides it to users free of charge. As a Germany-wide project, Jewish Places consolidates dispersed knowledge about Jewish micro-history and disseminates it for the sake of intellectual engagement, education, and awareness-raising. Jewish life is an integral component of society, and has always been interwoven with non-Jewish life. The Jewish Places project promotes recognition of this interwovenness and strives to cement its normality within the public consciousness. 

Thanks to its cooperative and community-based approach, Jewish Places portrays an ever-growing body of detailed information about sites of German-Jewish Places on the interactive map. Visitors can discover, edit, and add current and historical Jewish places. The information compiled on the website includes details about establishments of the Jewish Gemeinde (official local Jewish community), such as synagogues, houses of worship, cemeteries, and mikvehs, as well as secular sites, such as sports clubs, Jewish salons, or cafés. Our virtual walks offer an overview of the Jewish places in various cities and towns. Another section features biographies of historical figures, illustrating locations relevant to their lives. 
At the same time, Jewish Places creates an opportunity to combine and connect numerous websites and online platforms about Jewish regional history. This way we can raise the visibility of these web-based projects and expose interested parties to their resources in an accessible, sustainable way.

Jewish Places encourages its users to personally embark on purposeful investigations in their local areas, plot sites on the map, and thus become part of the Jewish Places community. Visitors are empowered to upload their own photographs, videos, texts, and bibliographical citations. With our community’s help, Jewish Places is expanding continuously as its content is steadily extended and improved. 

We exist at the intersection between academia and the general public, facilitating an exchange among specialists in Jewish history in Germany while creating an opportunity to communicate research findings to the public. 

Would you like to get involved as a user or partner? Users can click here to go straight to the map. On our FAQs, you will find all the key information on creating and editing entries. If you are interested in partnering with us, simply write us a message.

The Team