Offener Stadtspaziergang - Jüdische Geschichte und Gegenwart in der Spandauer Vorstadt und im Scheunenviertel

In the organizer's words:

Every second Sunday of the month until the end of 2025, we are offering free city tours through the Spandauer Vorstadt and Scheunenviertel in German and English. Starting at the New Synagogue, we follow in the footsteps of Berlin's oldest and most prominent Jewish institutions from 1672 to the present day.

Among other things, we will see the remains of Berlin's oldest Jewish cemetery and the site of the world-renowned College for the Science of Judaism. We learn about the founding of the community, its efforts to achieve full equality, its flourishing at the turn of the century, its near-destruction during the Nazi era and its continued existence to this day.

Along the way, we will meet personalities such as Regina Jonas, the first female rabbi in world history, and the writer Franz Kafka, who spent the last year of his life in Berlin.

Meeting point: In front of the entrance to the New Synagogue, Oranienburger Str. 28-30 10117 Berlin