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Mar 25, 2024 · The last real shtetl in western Europe, Antwerp is known for its Orthodox Jews and its diamonds industry. Barely twenty years ago, approximately 80% of Antwerp’s Jewish population used to make a living from the diamond industry.
Since then, Antwerp’s Jewish community has rebounded to become a major European centre of Haredi (and particularly Hasidic) Orthodox Judaism. Antwerp is now one of only two cities in Europe (together with London) that is home to a considerable Haredi population in the 21st century.
Jun 27, 2024 · The population in Antwerp quickly expanded in the 19th century as Jewish exiles arrived from Eastern Europe and again in the 1930s. During the Nazi occupation, thousands of Jews were deported from Antwerp, but the Jewish Quarter next to the station didn’t disappear.
Antwerp has an extensive network of synagogues, shops, schools and organizations. Significant Hasidic movements in Antwerp include Pshevorsk, based in Antwerp, as well as branches of Satmar, Belz, Bobov, Ger, Skver, Klausenburg and several others.
Mar 29, 2016 · In Antwerp, where 12,000 Haredi Jews live, many Jews are proud of the central role their community plays for much larger communities in Europe and beyond. Antwerp kosher slaughterhouses supply meat to communities as far flung as Romania.
Dec 19, 2002 · 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...
On the eve of the Holocaust, Antwerp was home to 53.8 percent of Belgian Jews, about 29,500 persons. Brussels, by comparison, had a Jewish population of 21,000, 38.5 percent of the total. Thus, Antwerp was the “capital” of Belgian Jewry.
