Secret Jewish Paris Tour
Secret Jewish Paris
Jewish Paris does not end at the Marais. This tour follows the lesser-known map: the 9th arrondissement synagogues, faubourg courtyards, memorial plaques and the neighborhoods where Jewish Paris actually lives today.
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What we will see
- The Grande Synagogue de la Victoire and the 9th arrondissement
- Courtyards and passages the guidebooks miss
- Memorial plaques and the schools: history at street level
- The Sephardic Paris of the 1960s and today
- A route adapted to your interests and walking pace
The tour
Most visitors see the Marais and believe they have seen Jewish Paris. But the real map is wider: the grand synagogues of the 9th arrondissement, the workshops of the faubourgs, the memorial plaques on school walls, the neighborhoods where the community actually lives and shops today.
This is the tour where my own path matters most. Born in Israel, in Paris for over twenty years, I offer the Israeli eye on French Jewish history: the questions visitors from Israel and America actually ask, answered at street level.
The route adapts to you: more history, more architecture, more contemporary life. We build the emphasis together, and the group is never more than six.
From travellers on this tour
“Our third trip to Paris, and Orlie still showed us places we had never heard of. The 9th arrondissement synagogues are breathtaking.”
“This is the tour for people who think they know Paris. We walked, we talked, we understood.”
Free guide
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