Jerusalem (nickname)

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Various cities (or places) outside of Jerusalem and Palestine bear the nickname Jerusalem of the North, South, East, West, Africa , etc., for honor and respect .

Jerusalem of the North

  • Vilnius , the capital of Lithuania (more rarely also "Jerusalem of the East") - As a liberal city, it often served as a refuge for persecuted Jews from Central Europe and Russia and became a center of Jewish culture.
  • Hamburg , the second largest city in Germany
  • Antwerp , the metropolis of Flanders in Belgium (but mostly "Jerusalem of the West")
  • Visby on Gotland in Sweden
  • Trondheim in Norway
  • Montreal , the metropolis in eastern Canada

Jerusalem of the south

Jerusalem of the East

  • Vilnius , the capital of Lithuania (but mostly "Jerusalem of the North")
  • Kiev , the capital of Ukraine
  • Sarajevo , the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina (also called "Little Jerusalem" or "Jerusalem of the Southeast")
  • Nanjing , the former capital of China
  • Pyongyang , the capital of North Korea

Jerusalem of the West

  • Toledo in Spain
  • Amsterdam , capital of the Netherlands
  • Antwerp , the metropolis of Flanders in Belgium (more rarely also "Jerusalem of the North")
  • Strasbourg in France
  • Prague , capital of Bohemia and the Czech Republic
  • Berlin , the German capital

Jerusalem of Africa

Further

Fürth is also known as the "Franconian Jerusalem". This original anti-Semitic mockery became an honorary title as the title of a 1987 documentary film.

Historian Niall Ferguson calls the city of Wenzhou the "Chinese Jerusalem" because many Christian entrepreneurs are active in it.

Kansk is called "Jerusalem of Siberia" .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hamburg - The Jerusalem of the North on hagalil.com, accessed on May 12, 2014.
  2. In the Jerusalem of the North on deutschlandfunk.de, accessed on May 12, 2014.
  3. Jerusalem of the North on merkur-online.de, accessed on May 12, 2014.
  4. The Jerusalem of the North on bonifatiuswerk.de, accessed on May 12, 2014.
  5. a b c d e f g Richard Deiss: Florence on the Elbe and Spree-Athens: 555 city names and city clichés from Blechbudenhausen to Schlicktown . BoD - Books on Demand, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-2448-7 ( text in Google book search).
  6. ^ Matthias Kolb: The former Jerusalem of the East on deutschlandradiokultur.de from August 24, 2009, accessed on May 12, 2014.
  7. Sarajevo - Jerusalem of the Southeast and the Unpolished Pearl of the Balkans ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on dieredaktion.de, accessed on May 12, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dieredaktion.de
  8. ^ Rüdiger Frank : North Korea: Interior views of a total state . DVA, 2014, ISBN 978-3-641-13966-7 ( text in Google book search).
  9. Jerusalem of the West in: Der Spiegel. dated September 24, 1990, accessed May 12, 2014.
  10. ^ Anne Winterling: Amsterdam. DuMont-Reiseverl, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-770-17258-0 , p. 88.
  11. ^ Ghetto walls on juedische-allgemeine.de, accessed on May 12, 2014.
  12. Lalibela: The Jerusalem of Africa. in: Hamburger Abendblatt. dated May 23, 2013, accessed May 12, 2014.
  13. The "Franconian Jerusalem" will soon be 1000 years old in: Hamburger Abendblatt. dated January 6, 2007.