Curated playlist
Historic Jewish communities
- RecifeRecife sits where two rivers meet the South Atlantic, a city stitched together by more than fifty bridges connecting a scatter of small islands off the northeastern coast of Brazil. Its name comes from the long stone reef running parallel…
- FrankfurtFrankfurt am Main was first mentioned in a document in 794, when Charlemagne presided over an imperial assembly and church synod and the name Franconofurd entered the written record. A founding legend recorded by Thietmar of Merseburg in…
- WuppertalWuppertal sits in a steep river valley in western Germany, and it moves in a way no other city does. Since 1901, a suspended monorail has glided over rooftops and above the River Wupper, carrying passengers eight meters above the streets…
- VeniceVenice sits on 126 islands in a shallow lagoon wedged between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers in northeastern Italy. Those islands are laced together by 472 bridges, and the city has no roads in its historic heart - only water…
- KrakówKraków sits on the Vistula River in southern Poland, and for roughly six centuries it was the royal capital of a kingdom, the seat of an empire, the target of conquerors, and the cradle of some of the oldest institutions in Europe. With a…
- MannheimMannheim sits at the exact point where the Neckar River meets the Rhine, and the city's streets don't have names. Instead, every block in central Mannheim carries a letter and a number, a system so unusual that it baffles modern mapping…
- Iberian PeninsulaThe Iberian Peninsula covers roughly 583,254 square kilometers, and it holds about 53 million people. That makes it the second-largest peninsula in Europe, behind only the Scandinavian Peninsula. The Pyrenees mountains seal it off from the…
- VilniusVilnius carries a name that comes from a river: the Vilnia, a small tributary meaning "ripple," which flows into the Neris at the heart of the old city. Grand Duke Gediminas wrote that name into letters in 1323, and from that first written…
- SanaaSanaa sits at an elevation of 2300 metres, making it the seventh highest capital city in the world. To the west rises Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb, Yemen's tallest mountain, and to the east stands Jabal Nuqum. Between them, the capital and…
- UlmUlm sits at the precise point where two rivers join the Danube, at 479 metres above sea level, and it has been drawing attention to itself for well over a thousand years. The earliest written record of the city dates from the 22nd of July…