At the fall of Carcassonne in 1209, the Jews of Béziers took refuge in Catalonia and rebuilt a community in the small town of Olot. It is known that the Jewish communities of Languedoc and Catalonia maintained commercial, cultural and religious relations. In the thirteenth century, Catalonia therefore absorbed a large number of Jews fleeing the war raging in Languedoc. Olot was destroyed in ...
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Thann
A Jewish community existed in Thann as early as the 13th century. In 1350, sources report a Jewish street in the northeastern part of the city. This community remained important: there were indeed 630 Jews in Thann in 1885. Before the Second World War, the community amounted to 160 souls. was first built in 1817 in the Neo-Byzantine style. In 1859, the number of faithful exceeds the capacity ...
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It is known that there was a Jewish community in Inca at least since Jaume I conquered Mallorca in 1229. That said, their presence had been mentioned before by Severus, bishop of the island in the fifth century. The Jewish quarter of the city (call) dates from 1346 and was established by a decision of Peter IV of Aragon, on a request from the governor of Mallorca, after the repeated ...
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Located an hour drive from Jaen, Úbeda’s story is similar to the one of the Jewish community in Jaen. But since the accidental discovery of -maybe the most ancient synagogue in the country- the city became a not to be missed destination is Spain. The Synagogue of Water was discovered during building works carried out in several real estate properties located in the heart of the historic ...
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The Compiègne Memorial was inaugurated in 2008. Since then, more than 90000 people visited the museum. Between 1941 and 1944, this camp was one of the principal transit points of France. About 45000 were imprisoned in Compiègne: political prisoners, mostly communists, and foreigners (Russians, Americans and Jews). The museum is now housed in the barracks.
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The synagogue in Ingwiller is from 1822 and was extended in 1891. Its exterior is surprising since it was constructed on the foundations of Lichtenberg castle. It is not used for religious service anymore. The copper bulb is from 1913. In the 1861’s census, the Jewish population was of 399 members.
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Built in 1841 and registered as a historical monument in 1996, Hochfelden’s synagogue is a classical example of Alsatian’s synagogues architecture. You can see the synagogue, mikveh, Jewish school and rabbi’s house.
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Haguenau has one of the oldest Jewish community of Alsace since the middle-ages. The first synagogue was confiscated during the 1349’s expulsion. When they came back, the Jews built another synagogue rue du Sel. It was renovated after a fire in 1676 and in service until 1820, when the current synagogue was built. Sacked during the Second World War and damaged by a bombing during the ...
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In the middle-ages, Ettendorf was home to an important community of scholars and intellectuals who came to study in the city’s famous rabbinic school. The beautiful Jewish cemetery from the fifteenth century is still visible.
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Jews were only allowed to establish in Erstein in 1850. The synagogue was destroyed in April 1941 by the Nazis and its furnitures sold at auctions. The synagogue was rebuilt in 1957 and is still active today.
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The Jewish community of Diemeringen was organised -synagogue, Jewish school, mikveh- around rue des Juifs (Jews’ Street), today rue au Vin. The community grew in the nineteenth century and counted 139 community members in 1870. The synagogue was built in 1867 and offices sometimes still take place. A Jewish cemetery from 1750 is located by the municipal cemetery.
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The Jewish community of Dambach-la-Ville dates back to the seventeenth century and so is the synagogue which was renovated in 1850. After the community disappeared, it was donated to the town in 1947 and transformed into a theatre. In 2012, construction work in the building lead to the discovery of a wonderful treasure: a genizah (a storage area in a synagogue or cemetery designated for the ...
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The first mention of a Jewish family in Brumath dates back to 1562. In 1689, there were 4 Jewish families in the city and, in 1766, 8 or 9. The synagogue was built in 1845 and the Jewish school in 1847. The synagogue was sacked during Second World War. After the Liberation, it was used as a food hangar. It was renovated in 1957 and re-inaugurated. Since 1998, a project of transforming the ...
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The Jewish community of Barr dates back to the second half of the nineteenth century. The oratory is from 1868, and the synagogue from 1878. The synagogue was sacked during the Second World War. The building was razed in 1983 after a pillar collapsed. The stained glass were transferred to the Meinau oratory and some stones to the Elisa Foundation in Strasbourg.
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The Jewish community of Balbronn is registered in the censuses of the city since 1665. Some medieval houses of the city center still bear the traces of mezuzot. is located 47-48 Balbach street, in what is commonly called “House of the Jews”. The house dates from 1638, although it started serving as a synagogue only in 1730. The prayer hall was on the first floor, the mikveh in ...
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Helsinki’s synagogue was constructed in 1906 on a piece of land donated by the municipality near the market where the Jews practiced the only profession open to them: trade in used clothing. Morning prayer services following the Ashkenazic liturgy are offered daily. The Jewish community center, built in 1961, includes a Jewish library of 5000 volumes, a children’s playground, and ...
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The first Jews who settled in Finland were of Russian origin and were soldiers of the czar's army, called cantonists. With its independence in 1917, the country promptly granted civil rights to the Jews. In 1939, when Finland became an ally of the Third Reich against the Soviet Union, Finnish Jews found themselves in the uneasy position of serving in an army allied with the Nazis: a prayer ...
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The modern synagogue is a low building, resembling a large majority of synagogues before the Shoah. The rest of the country Traces of the Jewish past are rare and include the Jewish cemeteries in Tartu and Rakvere in the northern part of the country. The University of Tartu, an intellectual center since before the war, offers classes of Jewish topics. There are Jewish cultural clubs in Tartu, ...
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In 1897, 20385 Jews lived in Gomel (54,8% of the population), as compared with 37475 (43,7%) in 1926. Today, little remains of their life here. The Jewish quarter was located on the right bank of the river. A beautiful with colonnades once occupied the slight bend that forms on the main road (Lenin Street). In its place stands the Mir Cinema, whose columns -those of the former synagogue- ...
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In the nineteenth century, more than 70% of Slonim’s population was Jewish. The ratio was 53% before the war. The ghetto was burned down between 29 June and 15 July 1942. At the city’s edge, at the site of the former cemetery, a monument commemorates the city’s 35000 Jews exterminated during the war. In the city center, set back in the relation to the marketplace, the ruins ...
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It is worth exiting the highway midway between Brest and Minsk and heading toward Slonim: in the middle of the village of Ruzhany, a beautiful synagogue still stands today. Its roof is in imminent danger of collapsing, however.
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Although the Judería is Hervás was small, a local proverb that “in Hervás there are many Jews” made the quarter famous. It stood close to the Ambroz River near the town’s exit. The Calle Rabilero and Calle de la Sinagoga are the most picturesque, with a fine fountain dedicated to Jewish-Christian friendship and two-story brick and chestnut-wood houses with many flowers. ...
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The community of Trujillo is first mentioned in 1290. Just before the expulsion it had 150 members. All of them went to Portugal. Not long ago, construction in the back of a pharmacy brought to light the site of an old synagogue. An inscription from Psalms (118-20) reads: “This door is the door of the Lord: the Just will enter through here”. The adjoining house has two vaulted ...
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Cáceres had a fairly sizable Jewish presence after the Christian reconquest. In 1479, 100 married Jews were listed in a community with some 650 members. They lived in two juderías: the “old” one was on the site of today’s Casa de las Veletas, and the “new” one was around Plaza Mayor, where the Jews had most of their shops. is probably an old synagogue that was ...
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It is likely the history of Spain’s Jews began in Estremadura. Vestiges from the third century bear witness to them and, according to the twelfth-century chronicler Abraham ibn Daud, the Jews that Titus deported from Jerusalem settled in this old Roman province. However, as elsewhere, there are few traces left to indicate this long presence.
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The call is clearly defined by a small square and the Carrer de la Call. It is one of Spain’s most important for the quality and richness of its houses, even if urban development work has done away with the smaller streets and blind alleys. The location of its four gates is known, but not that of its many synagogues. is traditionally the preserve of the chuetas, a community of silver ...
Plus d'infosThe Balearic Islands
There have been Jews in the Balearic Islands since the Roman occupation. After Jaume I won the islands from the Arabs, many Jews arrived from Catalonia but also the south of France and North Africa to settle the new land. After 1343, when Pedro IV of Aragón seized the islands, the Balearic Jews began to enjoy a real golden age. The leading families traded throughout the Mediterranean and with ...
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Teruel became important as the supply center for Catalan-Aragónese troops sent out to conquer Valencia. The Jews here became specialized in weaving wool. The Lonja, or produce exchange, was open to both Jewish and Muslim traders. The local museum (Museo Provincial) has an interesting Hanukkah lamp made in the local green ceramic. Discovered in 1977 during an excavation in the old Jewish ...
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In the Middle Ages the powerful kingdom of Aragón comprised not only Aragón itself but Catalonia, Valencia, and the Balearic Islands. It was home to numerous Jewish communities, especially after the union with Catalonia in 1150. They had links with the Muslims, who lived here around 1500.
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Tortosa was home to one of the peninsula’s oldest communities, as attested by a seventh-century headstone discovered in the nineteenth century and now on display in the cathedral cloister. Its incription is in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek and features two Stars of David and a candelabra. The community thrived under Arab rule, its illustrious sons including the grammarian Menahem ben Saruq ...
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