The history of the Jews in Alsace is one of the oldest in Europe. It was first attested to in 1165 by Benjamin of Tudela, who wrote about a "large number...
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The history of the Jews in France deals with Jews and Jewish communities in France since at least the Early Middle Ages. France was a centre of Jewish...
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The history of Alsace has been influenced by the Rhine and its tributaries, a favorable climate, fertile loess soils, and the region's relative accessibility...
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The beginnings of the history of the Jews in Besançon go back to the Middle Ages, a period during which the Jews settled in the city attracted by its...
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Alsace is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in the Grand Est administrative region of northeastern France, on the west bank of the upper...
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The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321 CE, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High...
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Alsace–Lorraine (German: Elsaß–Lothringen), officially the Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine (German: Reichsland Elsaß–Lothringen), was a territory...
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The history of the Jews in Switzerland extends back at least a thousand years. Jews and Judaism have been present in the territory of what is now Switzerland...
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Alphonse Kahn (category French Jews)
cemetery (division 30). Galeries Lafayette Theophile Bader History of the Jews in Alsace Acte de décès (avec date et lieu de naissance) à Paris 17e,...
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Judeo-Alsatian Museum (redirect from Judeo-Alsatian Museum of Bouxwiller)
former synagogue, the museum describes the Jewish culture and history of the Jews of Alsace. History of the Jews in Alsace List of museums in France le Musée...
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Ashkenazi Jews (/ˌɑːʃkəˈnɑːzi, ˌæʃ-/ A(H)SH-kə-NAH-zee; also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim) form a distinct subgroup of the Jewish diaspora, that...
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The Assembly of Alsace (French: Assemblée d'Alsace, Alsatian: Versammlung vum Elsàss - whose formal name is Conseil départemental d'Alsace) is the deliberative...
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The history of the Jews in the Philippines started during the Spanish period (1521-1898). The Spanish Inquisition in the 16th century forced many Jews...
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concerned about the role of Jews as moneylenders, wanting to end that. The treatment of the Alsace Jews and their debtors was raised in the Imperial Council...
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The history of the Jews in El Salvador goes back to the 1800s. Jews have been present in El Salvador since the early 19th century, starting with Sephardic...
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Among the many Jews migrating to Basel from Alsace was the family of the young Alfred Dreyfus, who gained fame in the so-called “Dreyfus affair.” The hatred...
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The history of the Jews in Peru dates back to the country's Spanish period with the arrival of migration flows of Sephardic Jews from Europe, the Near...
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Colmar Treasure (category Culture in Alsace)
2019 the Treasure was exhibited at The Cloisters, part of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Erfurt Treasure History of Jews in Alsace Treasures of the...
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Infamous Decree (category Jewish French history)
1809 there were more than 2,900 Jews in Paris, while the Jewish population of Alsace grew to more than 46,000. Many Jews continued to live as lower-class...
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financing the expenses of the emperor. Josel of Rosheim remains a major figure of the History of Jews in Alsace. One of his ancestors was Jacob ben Jehiel Loans...
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Maroko) are Jews who live in or are from Morocco. Moroccan Jews constitute an ancient community dating to Roman times. Jews began immigrating to the region...
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Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne (category 19th-century French Jews)
(1 May 1814, Strasbourg, Alsace, France – 6 May 1884, Ein Karem, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire) was a French Jew who converted to Christianity...
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returned to France, but the concordatory status has been preserved since as part of the Local law in Alsace-Moselle. In 1940, after the French defeat, it came...
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believed that the room next to the square room was used for people to undress before entering the Mikvah. History of the Jews in Alsace Base Mérimée:...
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Colmar (redirect from Colmar, Alsace)
in the Haut-Rhin department and Alsace region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it is the...
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Jews who lived as New Christians in the Iberian Peninsula during the few centuries following the forced expulsion of unconverted Jews from Spain in 1492...
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in the historic Alsace region on the left bank of the Rhine. Founded by the Romans in 12 BC, the city passed under the control of the Merovingians in...
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Musée alsacien (Strasbourg) (category Alsatian Jews)
of (mostly rural) daily life in pre-industrial and early industrial Alsace. It contains over 5000 exhibits and is notable for the reconstruction of the...
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The history of antisemitism, defined as hostile actions or discrimination against Jews as a religious or ethnic group, goes back many centuries, being...
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Armleder persecutions (category History of Alsace)
The Armleder persecutions were a series of massacres against Jews in Franconia and Alsace in 1336–1339. In 1336 a nobleman of Franconia, Arnold von Uissigheim...
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