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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. While the Jewish population grew and waned over the centuries, by the beginning of World War II Antwerp had a thriving Jewish community comprising some ...
To this day, Jews in Antwerp remain highly visible and sustain their community as a “minority group” that is considered “different” and is distinguishable from the rest of the city's inhabitants. Many people today view Jews in Antwerp as a “closed community” or even as “a shtetl on the River Scheldt”. Orthodox Jews in Antwerp ...
- Veerle Vanden Daelen
- 2011
The contrast of the “Antwerp case” is even sharper when one translates the percentages for these Jewish centers into absolute figures. 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.
Kentucky Lake is a major navigable reservoir along the Tennessee River in Kentucky and Tennessee. It was created in 1944 by the Tennessee Valley Authority 's impounding of the Tennessee River via Kentucky Dam for flood control and hydroelectric power. [2] The 160,309-acre (649 km 2) lake is the largest artificial lake by surface area in the ...
Jun 12, 2018 · Antwerp's diamond district is located next to the main train station in the Belgian city. Pixabay / Creative Commons Essential to this trade has been the city’s Jewish population, many of whom ...
Dec 4, 2009 · Jobs in the city’s Jewish-dominated diamond industry were abundant, lucrative and required little training. Upwards of three-quarters of Antwerp Jews relied on them for their livelihoods.
Jul 13, 2017 · In search of a better life, almost two million people emigrated to the United States and Canada on Red Star Line vessels between 1873 and 1934. They came mainly from Germany and Eastern Europe, of which an estimated 25% were Jewish. Only 10% of the emigrants travelling via Antwerp were Belgian. In the 1870s and 1880s good rail connections ...
