Faubourg Saint-Jacques of Chinon

Rue des Juifs of Bourges

Synagogue of Tours

37 rue Parmentier, Tours

Chinon

France > Centre

The Jewish presence in Chinon seems to date from the 12th century. Administrative documents attest to this from the following century. Most of the Jews lived in the rue de la Juiverie, near the Palais de Justice in Chinon. There was then a synagogue, a mikvah and a renowned study center. On August 27, 1321, following a false accusation (frequent at the time) of poisoning wells, the 160 Jews ...

Bourges

France > Centre

The Jewish presence in Bourges seems to date from the 6th century. Following a refusal to convert to Christianity, the Jews were expelled from the city in the 7th century. Administrative documents attest to a Jewish quarter in 1020, south of the city. It seems that a building at the corner of rue des Bourbonnoux and served as a synagogue in the Middle Ages. There would have been another ...

Synagogue of Orléans

14 rue Robert de Courtenay, Orléans

Rue aux Juifs in Chartres

Rue des Juifs in Blois

Orléans

France > Centre

Unlike the majority of other cities in the region, the Jewish presence is attested in Orléans from the 6th century. In 585, the Orléans Jews participated in the welcoming ceremony in homage to King Gontran. It seems that they asked him for the possibility of building a new synagogue following the destruction of the previous one. The Jewish community of Orleans was quite large in number in the ...

Chartres

France > Centre

The Jewish presence in Chartres seems to date from the 12th century, documents attest to it for 1130. Places still mark this presence such as the . The old synagogue would have been located where the Saint-Hilaire hospital is now. At the end of the 19th century, dwellings in the streets of the Jews will be sources of inspiration for the novel La Terre by Emile Zola. Among the illustrious ...

Blois

France > Centre

The Jewish presence in Blois seems to date from the end of the 10th century. But the city was infamous for the first anti-Semitic charge of ritual murder in 1171. About 40 Jews lived there then. Isaac Ben Eleazar was accused of having thrown a child in the Loire. 33 Jews were imprisoned and murdered following this false accusation based on unfounded rumors and the transmission of anti-Semitic ...

Centre

Commemorative plaque

12 rue Sainte-Catherine, Lyon

Fort Montluc

4 rue Jeanne Hachette, 69003 Lyon http://www.memorial-montluc.fr/

Center for the History of the Resistance and Deportation

14 Avenue Berthelot, 69007 Lyon Tel : 04 72 73 99 00 https://www.chrd.lyon.fr/

Synagogue of Sarreguemines

Rue George-V, 57200 Sarreguemines

Synagogue of Sarrebourg

12 Rue du Sauvage, 57400 Sarrebourg

Léon Schwab street

Jewish Cemetery of Epinal

rue du Souvenir français, 88600 Epinal

Synagogue of Epinal

9 Rue Charlet, 88000 Épinal

Sarrebourg

France > Lorraine

Forbidden to stay following pressure from local merchants, the first Jews to settle in Sarrebourg did so after the French Revolution and national emancipation. The first birth of a Jew in Sarrebourg therefore dates from 1794. The community acquired land that could be used as a cemetery in 1812. An oratory was installed a few years later on the first floor of a house. A was officially opened ...

Epinal

France > Lorraine

The Jewish presence in Epinal seems to date from the 18th century, following the arrival of merchants from Alsace. But only one Jew was recorded in the city in 1771. The wind of emancipation of the French Revolution allowed Jews to settle in the city in a more lasting way. Thus, the number of Spinalian Jews increased from 19 in 1806, 350 in 1856, 380 in 1900 to 450 at the dawn of the First ...

Jewish cemetery of Hellering

Rue des Carrières, 57470 Hombourg-Haut

Synagogue of Saint-Avold

14-16 Rue du Général Hirschauer, 57500 Saint-Avold

Jewish cemetery of Metzervisse

Route de Volstroff, 57940 Metzervisse

Synagogue of Metzervisse

Grand-Rue, Metzervisse

Henri Kaufmann street

Synagogue of Forbach

Avenue Saint-Rémy, Forbach

Metzervisse

France > Lorraine

The Jewish presence in the city and in the area probably dates from the 9th century. But it persisted much later in a more structured way, in the 16th century. The following century, we find traces of Jewish families from Metzervisse. Small synagogues are springing up in the region, but in Metzervisse, as elsewhere, they are generally located behind buildings by local pressure to keep quiet. ...

Forbach

France > Lorraine

The Jewish presence in Forbach seems to date from the 17th century. Very few people were affected until the middle of the 18th century. An oratory was installed in 1733 and a small Jewish quarter began to form on rue Fabert. If on the eve of the French Revolution a complaint was lodged about the quota of Jews exceeding the authorized number, the wind of emancipation had rapid effects in the ...