Quarter in Berlin not far from Alexanderplatz, which became a center for Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. Often perceived as an “Eastern Jewish ghetto”) by the German public, the poverty-ridden neighborhood with its disproportionately high percentage of Jewish inhabitants became …
Scheunenviertel(3,926 words)
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Saß, Anne-Christin, “Scheunenviertel”, in: Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online, Original German Language Edition: Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur. Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig herausgegeben von Dan Diner. © J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland 2011–2017. Consulted online on 11 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-8894_ejhc_COM_0779>
First published online: 2017
First print edition: 20221116
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