Educational Travel Experience: Jewish Journey to Central Europe

An Educational Travel Experience with Hebrew College Tamid

Where: Prague, Vienna, Budapest
When: May 5–15, 2025
Hebrew College Instructor: Rabbi Dr Leonard Gordon
Keshet Educational Tour Educator: Danny Ehrlich
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Contact: Email a member of our Tamid team with any questions
Trip Sponsors: Hebrew College Tamid & Keshet Educational Tours

Together, we will explore and trace the story of Ashkenazi Jewry, using the major centers of Prague, Vienna (pictured above) and Budapest to remember and learn about the past and to better understand the complex nature of our own contemporary Jewish identity, belief and practice.

Central Europe was the cradle and center of Ashkenazi Jewish civilization until the 13^th and 14^th centuries. In the wake of the Crusades, the Black Plague and unrelenting Christian persecution, expulsions and massacres, the center of European Jewish life and creativity shifted eastward to Poland. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, as Jews grappled with the new challenges presented by emancipation and freedom, the German speaking Jewish communities evolved new models of Jewish living, laying the groundwork for the development of the Reform, Conservative and Modern Orthodox movements. The Nazis and their allies destroyed the Jewish communities of Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, but their legacies are still alive and relevant in contemporary Jewish life.

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Pre-trip course with Rabbi Leonard Gordon. Registration for this spring course will be open in December. All those who have expressed interest in the trip will receive a direct invite to attend this course.

*As of July 10, 2024. Subject to change