| Circa 1577 | First settlement of Portuguese Jews (Sephardi) in Hamburg
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| 1611 | German Jewish community (Ashkenazi) founded in Altona
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| 1612 | Protection privileges granted to the Jews by the Senate
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| 1621 | German Jews resident in Hamburg
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| 1627&1644 | Altona Jews take refuge in Hamburg from the 30 years war
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| 1648 | Union of the three communities Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbek (AHW)
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| 1654-1859 | Synagogue in Neuen Steinweg (oldest synagogue in Hamburg)
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| 1660-1811 | Cemetery in Altona (Königstraße)
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| 1657 | Initial beginning of the Hamburg communit
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| 1671 | Hamburg German Jews freed from the protectorate of the Portuguese Jews
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| 1671 | Chevra Kadisha (funeral society) founded (reorganised 1811)
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| 1685 | Main Synagogue in Altona inaugurated (former Kleine Papagoyenstraße)
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| 1688 | German Jews settle in Wandsbek
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| 1697 | Written constitution of the High German Jewish community in Hamburg
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| 1711 | Chevra Kadisha Bikur Cholim Umischmeret (funeral society)
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| 1712-1883 | Cemetery in the Grindel quarter (removed 1937)
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| 1713-1749 | Yehezkel Katzenelenbogen. Rabbi and presiding judge in Altona
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| 1730 | Anti-Jewish riot (Geseroth Henkelpöttchen W
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| 1750-1764 | Jonathan Eybeschütz, Chief Rabbi of the AHW
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| 1751-1756 | Hamburg amulet controversy (Eybeschütz-Emden)
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| 1766 | Deutsch-Israelitischen (German Jewish) Orphanage founded (Marktstraße)
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| 1798 | Old (1754) and New (17579 Klaus synagogue united (Peterstraße, later Rutschbah
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| 1798 | S.D. Wallichs (R. Jechiels) Klaus synagogue (junction Neaderstraße/Ludwig-Erhard-Straße)
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| 1804 | Talmud Tora School founded (Neanderstraße/Jan-Valkenburg-Straße) (new buildings 1857 and
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| 1804 | 'Neuen Israelitische (New Jewish) Funeral Society' founded
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| 1811 | Lewin Salomonsche (Löb Schaul) Klaus synagogue (Alter Wall
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| 1811 | Disbanding of the union of the three communities (AHW)
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| 1811 | Deutsch Israelitishe (German Jewish) community Funeral Society
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| 1811 | Chevra Kadisha reorganised
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| 1817 | Neuen Israelitische (New Jewish) Temple Society founded
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| 1818 | First Hamburg Temple (Liberal Judaism) (Brunnenstraße)
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| 1821 | Designation Deutsch-Israelitische Gemeinde (D.I.G.) (German Jewiscommunity)
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| 1821-1849 | Chacham Isaak Bernays, Chief Rabbi of Hamburg
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| 1836-1872 | Jakob Ettlinger, Chief Rabbi of Altona
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| 1843 | Hospital of the community inaugurated (Simon-von-Utrecht-Straße)
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| 1844 | New Temple building (Poolstraße) (new building 1931)
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| 1849 | Conclusive emancipation of the Hamburg Jews
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| 1857 | Talmud Tora School new building (Kohlhöfen)
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| 1857 | Pauline Charity Girls Orphanage (Laufgraben
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| 1859-1934 | D.I.G. Synagogue (Kohlhöfen)
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| 1865 | Disbanding of the Altona Bet Din (religious court)
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| 1867 | As a consequence of the 1860 Hamburg constitutional reform the constitution of the
D.I.G.
is resolved (Hamburg System) incorporating members of ththree religious societies,
Synagogue Society (Orthodox), Temple Society (Liberal) and New Dammtor Synagogue (Conservative)
as well as individuals of no religious affiliation.
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| 1868 | Deutsch-Israelitische Synagogen-Verbandes (German Jewish Synagogue Society) founded
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| 1883 | Community cemetery Ohlsdorf (Ilandkoppel)
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| 1884 | Daniel Wormser House built (bed and board for travellers in transit) (Westerstraße)
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| 1884 | D.I.G Girls School founded (Karolinenstraße
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| 1886 | Old Peoples Home built (Sedanstraße
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| 1887 | Cemetery Langenfelde (Försterweg)
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| 1895 | Ne Dammtor Synagogue (Conservative Judaism) inaugurated (former Beneckestraße
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| 1898 | Nursing Home founded
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| 1906 | D.I.G. Synagogue Bornplatz (Orthodox Judaism)
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| 1910 | Holiday Home Segeberg founded
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| 1912 | Talmud Tora School new building (Grindelhof)
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| 1921 | Holiday Home Wilhelminenhöhe built (Rissener Landstraße)
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| 1924-1927 | Joseph Carlebach director of the Talmud Tora School
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| 1927-1937 | Joseph Carlebach Chief Rabbi of Altona
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| 1928 | D.I.G. Youth Club opened (Johnsallee)
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| 1932-1938 | Zionist organizations preparing youth for Palestine. Hechaluz Hamburg, Habonim Noar
Chaluzi,
Hashomer Hazair and Beth Chaluz (vocational training) (former Beneckerstraße). Three kibbutzim:
Wilhelminenhöhe (Rissener Landstraße), Ejn Chajim (Kirchenweg) and Cherut-Charut (Grotiusweg).
Merchant marine Hachshara (Lucy Borchardts Fairplay shipping company
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| 1937 | Cemetery in the Grindel quarter removed (An der Verbindungsbahn)
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| 1937-1941 | Joseph Carlebach Chief Rabbi of Hamburg
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| 1938 | Deportation of Polish Jews from Altona to Poland
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| 1938 | Pogrom Night: destruction of the synagogues, ransacking of stores, arrests,
incarceration
in concentration camps and murder
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| 1938 | Hamburg System restructured to become t Jüdische Religionsverband Hamburg in reaction
to the changed political situation
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| 1939 | All Jews in Germany become compulsory members of the Nazi controlled Reichsvereinigung
der
Juden
in Deutschland (Reich Association of Jews Germany
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| 1933-1945 | Boycott, social and occupational ostracism, Aryanisation, flight, suicide, deportation
concentration and death camps
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| 1941-1945 | Seventeen transports deported Hamburg Jews to Lodz, Minsk, Riga, Auschwitz and
Theresienstadt
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| 1941 | Joseph Carlebach, his wife Charlotte and their four youngest children deported to Riga
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| 1942 | Joseph Carlebach, his wife Charlotte and their three youngest daughters murdered
The Jüdischer Religionsverband Hamburg officially integrated into the Nazi controlle
Reichsvereinigung der Jude in Deutschland
Conclusive destruction of the Hamburg Jewish community
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| 1943 | Reichsvereinigung der Jude in Deutschland disbanded and the few remaining Jews in
Hamburg
placed under the Rest-Vereinigun
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* For a more complete list of institutions see Irmgard Stein, Jüdische Baudenkmäler
in Hamburg. Hamburg: Christians, 1984.
