Paris is a city that's full of different little quarters and neighborhoods.

You've certainly heard of the Latin quarter.

You know about the gay district, and you've surely heard about the Jewish quarter too.

But I got to thinking, in the heart of the Marais is the Jewish quarter of Paris.

And its history is fascinating, yet somewhat mysterious to me.

I realized I didn't really know much about the Jewish quarter of Paris and what goes on there.

Is it a quarter where Jewish people go to get Jewish food and pray Jewish prayers? Is it a quarter where everybody can go,

regardless of where they're from or what they believe in? What's behind the closed doors of the

synagogue and why is that falafel shop so popular? You know which one I'm talking about, the green one

on Routa Roosterousier, Las de Falafel. With all this in mind, I figured I would dig a little bit deeper.

Talk to some experts, sample the Jewish quarter for myself, and share it with you guys.

My name is Oliver G.

This is the Yearful Tower podcast podcast and Jay is for Jewish Paris. So there's a little music, a little fitting music actually from Press Max,

and I'll talk about that more in a second.

First, this is a very different topic to my usual topics because it's a tricky one. It reminded me of going back to my old

journalist days because I wanted to get it right and I wanted to talk to people who knew things.

I wanted to talk to the right people. I didn't want to just go out there by myself and sort of

report back and yet last week's episode walking

around the island hit some kind of chord with a lot of you. So I did want to experience it for

myself. So what you're about to hear is a collection of interviews with various people from

Paris's Jewish scene mixed in with me going and doing all these things, experiencing

it for myself so I can share with you things to do while you're in the Jewish quarter of Paris.

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