Café Leonar

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name = Café Leonar©

type = Private
genre = Gastronomy
foundation = January 15, 2008
founder = Sonia Simmenauer
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location = Grindelhof 59,
20146 Hamburg,
Germany
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services = Bar, Café including the bookstore SAMTLEBEN & Guggenheim
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owner = Sonia Simmenauer
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homepage = [http://www.cafeleonar.de/ cafeleonar.de]
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The Café Leonar is a café, a bar and a bookstore (for fiction, non fiction and judaica) in Hamburg Germany founded by Sonia Simmenauer. It is the first Jewish café in Hamburg since pre-war times, and serves kosher pastries as well as Jewish specialities. It opened it's doors on the 15th of January 2008 in the old Jewish part of Hamburg called the Grindel.

History

Until 1938, Simmenauer's grandfather Leonhart owned a factory in Hamburg, Wandsbeck with his partner Arndt. From the name of these two men came their factory's name Leonar. It was the previous owner of the building, who gave her the broschures from 1927 to 1929 with the words: "Leonar would be a nice name for the café." [ [http://www.cafeleonar.de Cafe Leonar / Jüdischer Salon am Grindel ] ]

Background and motivation

* In the beginning of 2008, the Talmud-Thora-School, which was a a school for the poor until it was forcefully closed in 1942, leaving only 3 of the 28 teachers alive.

* The Jewish population is growing slowly but steadily in Hamburg, and all of Germany

* The people of Hamburg are taking more and more interest in the history of the Grindelviertel, the former center of the Jewish community.

* The growing number of relatives such as grandchildren searching for traces and roots of their ancestors.

Food and Beverages

Jewish salon

References

Most of the information in this article was translated and paraphrase from the official website of the Café Leonar.

External links

* [http://www.cafeleonar.de/cafe/ Café Leonar]
* [http://www.cafeleonar.de/ev/ Jewish Salon]