Traveller's Guide to Jewish Germany

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The “Traveller’s to Germany” is an indispensable guide for those looking to go on a journey of discovery into a not often travelled part of Jewish history. According to the Talmud, the doors of return are always open, and the restored and preserved synagogues, cemeteries, and mikvehs (ritual baths) in Germany await visitors, both Jew and Gentile, with doors open wide. This important work, complete with full-colour photographs, describes significant sites mentioned in no other guidebook.

With more Jewish historical points of interest than any country outside of Israel, Germany contains not only the relics of the past but also the origins of rituals and traditions that continue to the present day. Anyone researching family names, the Yiddish language, or Talmudic teaching may find their beginnings here.

Yet, even for those not interested in scholarly or personal investigation, Germany offers many Jewish points of interest-some sombre, some sacred. In the Jewish cemetery on Ilandskoppel in Hamburg is a memorial to the Nazi's victims that includes an urn from Auschwitz. In Ausburg is probably the only surviving German Jugendstil synagogue. A museum located in the synagogue complex contains a rich collection of ritual and secular objects from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.

Whether travellers are searching for history, religion, or their roots, they will not be disappointed by the countless discoveries to be made with the help of this key to the open doors of Jewish Germany.