In Search of Jewish Berlin Walking Tour
Your focus for this 3-hour history tour will be the main sites of Berlin’s 19th and 20th century Jewish history and the districts of Spandauer Vorstadt and Scheunenviertel (known as the ‘Barn Quarter’) in Berlin-Mitte. Take in the graceful avenue Oranienburger Straße, where the magnificent New Synagoge was erected in 1866. Learn not only of the conflicts between German Jews and Non-Jews but of tensions between the mostly assimilated German Jewry and the so-called Eastern Jews (‘Ostjuden’) who filled Berlin in the 1920s after fleeing anti-Jewish violence in their homelands.
Options
Start Times
What's included in In Search of Jewish Berlin Walking Tour
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum
The New Synagoge's grand architecture symbolized and celebrated Jewish assimilation in Germany in the 19th century. It is thus one of the most moving sites on our walk. Today it is home to the Jewish community reviving in Berlin,
Auguststrasse was once alive with Jewish institutions, for just one example the Jewish Girls’ School undertaken between 1927 and 1928. The school building, located at Auguststraße 11-13, is historical monument built by architect Alexander Beer, characterised by the New Objectivity style. Today it is home to an exhibit hall and a coffee shop that are well worth a visit.
Die Hackeschen Hoefe
A vibrant Jewish community developed around Hackescher Markt, where we take in the graceful architecture and stories of German Jewish life on Spandauer Vorstadt and Scheunenviertel (known as the “Barn Quarter”) in Berlin-Mitte.
Inclusions
- 3-hour tour of Berlin in the company of a Jewish Studies scholar
- Food and drinks
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Your tour guides are professors, grad students or journalists, who are also enthusastic hosts and storytellers. We love helping travelers discover our amazing cities.
Meet
Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting Points
- Please meet your guide outside Hackescher Hof Restaurant & Café, Rosenthaler Str. 40/41, 10178 Berlin.
