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Jewish Travel: Switzerland
ABOVE: Zürich, Switzerland has a Jewish
population of 7,000. Kosher businesses for tourists include a meat restaurant, a
dairy restaurant, and a hotel that serves kosher breakfasts.
Switzerland is largely
a Protestant and Catholic nation, with a Jewish population estimated at less
than 20,000 or about 0.3% of the country's residents. The largest concentrations
of Swiss Jews are in Zürich (7,000), Geneva (4,500), and (Basel (2,800).
HaGalil's Judische Gemeinden
page reports that some 2/3 of Switzerland's Jewish population lives in
German-speaking areas.
Not surprisingly, kosher facilities for Orthodox and other tradition-minded
Jewish travelers are in short supply. Still, it is possible to find
kosher restaurants and food stores in Switzerland, and synagogues and mikvahs
exist in places where you might not expect to find them--as you'll see when you
click on the links below.
General information
Judaism in Switzerland
This page from
isyours.com, a site maintained by Micheloud & Cie, offers a good overview of
Swiss Jewish life and institutions with links to other resources.
Hotels, Restaurants, Museums, Publications,
Jewish Communities, and Schools
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