Entries Tagged as 'Jewish Paris'

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

“Goldenberg Pletzl” reopens as jeans shop

“For decades, the Goldenberg Pletzl restaurant — better known as “Jo Goldenberg’s” — served up potato latkes, matzo ball soup or corned beef sandwiches to Parisian Jews and tourists in Le Marais district, until it shut down four years ago. The establishment, targeted in a grenade and machine-gun attack in 1982 that left six people […]

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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

The Camondos: A Saga of Splendor and Tragedy

Abraham’s sons and grandsons don’t limit their allegiances to the Grand Vizir. In 1854 Abraham Salomon represents the Austro-Hungarian community of the Ottoman Empire at the marriage of Franz-Joseph of Austria. In 1860, with the birth of his grandson Moses, he also founds the Universal Israelite Foundation in Paris. In 1865, seeing the decline of […]

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