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Where should you go in Antwerp for kosher delights and books on Judaism? We find out.Welcome to one of the world’s last remaining shtetls.
Antwerp is the place to sample Jewish life
Shtetl, a Yiddish term for village or small town, is often applied to Antwerp's Jewish district due to the city’s high concentration of Hassidic Jews.
Although the Flemish city’s some 15,000 Jewish residents are outnumbered by Brussels' estimated 20,000, Antwerp is a much better place to get a flavour for Jewish life.
That’s mainly because while Jews in Brussels are spread out throughout the city, Jewish Antwerp is still largely concentrated in the streets surrounding the central train station.
More than 80 percent of Antwerp’s Jewish population work in the diamond industry. More than half of the world’s diamonds – rough, polished and industrial – pass through this Flemish town, though much of the big deals are done behind closed doors.
Fortunately, ordinary citizens can visit numerous retail shops all along Pelikaanstraat, which conveniently begins at the central station and goes on about six blocks. The diamond district is concentrated in a two-square mile area comprising some 1,500 companies and four diamond bourses.
Jewish residents who don’t work in the diamond industry mainly run family-owned shops or kosher eateries, are involved in education or religious institutions or are active in the fur, textile and leather industries.
To get a real appreciation for Jewish Antwerp you must first go back in time.
13th-century origins
Antwerp’s Jewish heritage goes as far back as the 13th century, with the arrival of the ‘Ashkenazi’ Jews from central Europe. In addition, Jews expelled from France and England also arrived in Belgium in the 13th and 14th centuries.
A very nice article! Now I know where to go when
I´ll be in Antwerp! Thanks a lot!
Unfortunately the article does not mention the "Antwerp Pogrom" organised by 200 flemish nazi supporters on April 14th, 1941 and three razzia's of the German in order to deport the Jews, in full collaboration of the Antwerp police in the late summer of 1942.
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