Place · Central Europe
Berlin
It received Jewish families expelled from Vienna in 1671.
52.5238°N 13.3996°E · representative coordinate · approximate · Natural Earth Berlin ↗
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About fifty Viennese families settled in Berlin in 1671.
Nearly 1,600 Jews were baptized in Berlin between 1770 and 1830.
Rahel Levin Varnhagen brought Jewish and Christian figures together in her literary salon.
Joseph II's 1782 Edict of Toleration removed restrictions and encouraged secular education.
Community: Jews of Berlin
About fifty Viennese families settled in Berlin in 1671.
Community: Berlin Jews amid salons, conversion, and reform.
Nearly 1,600 Jews were baptized in Berlin between 1770 and 1830. Rahel Levin Varnhagen brought Jewish and Christian figures together in her literary salon.
Community: Berlin Maskilim
Periodicals, Hebrew prose, Yiddish drama, and salons created a Jewish republic of letters. Opened in 1778, Berlin's Jewish Free School combined languages, sciences, and Jewish studies.
Community: Weimar Jews
Under Weimar, Germany's 564,000 Jews enjoyed unprecedented access to posts that had been closed.
Hugo Preuss drafted the liberal constitution that the right called a Jewish republic.
Walter Rathenau became foreign minister in 1922 and was assassinated that same year.
Community: Berlin Jews
Kurt Baumann proposed a Jewish cultural circle because Berlin alone held 175,000 Jews, enough for theater, opera, and an orchestra. In September 1933 the Reich Representation of German Jews was formed, led by Rabbi Leo Baeck of Berlin.