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The history of the Jews in Antwerp, a major city in the modern country of Belgium, goes back at least eight hundred years. Jewish life was first recorded in the city in the High Middle Ages.
Jun 4, 2013 · The story of Jewish immigration to America will soon be retold in Antwerp, Belgium. A museum dedicated to the Red Star Line, the shipping operation that carried more than 2 million people to the...
Jan 6, 2009 · ANTWERP, Belgium — Teetering on their bicycles or strolling amiably while chattering into cell phones in Yiddish, Dutch, French, Hebrew or English, the Orthodox Jews of this Belgian port city...
The Jewish presence in Antwerp is certainly not a new phenomenon. There have been three major immigration phases, beginning as early as the 13th century. At that time, Ashkenazi Jews moved from...
In the Antwerp story we present the city and its harbour, the old and new Eilandje neighbourhood and Antwerp as the last stop (on the way to America). The Belgian component is about emigrants who fled poverty or persecution, or were looking for adventure, and boarded the Red Star Line steamers.
Jan 19, 2021 · An examination of the changing characteristics of Antwerp's Jewish life and its Jewish inhabitants, clarifies how Jews in Antwerp manifested – or “marked” – themselves in the city over the last century. In doing so, I would like to put the idea of a “closed community” in perspective.
Nov 27, 2013 · Thanks to the new Red Star Line Museum, which opened this fall in Antwerp, the story of how the company’s steamships ushered Eastern European Jews to the United States, and how those...
