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Nottingham

EnglandOther cities in England

In the 13th century, the Jewish community of Nottingham was one of the 27 recognized by the Kingdom. It suffered a violent attack in 1264 during the Barons’ War, then was a victim like ...

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Bristol

EnglandOther cities in England

Jews accompanied the conquests of the aptly named William the Conqueror in the 11th century. They settled in Bristol during her son’s reign. The city became one of the main centers of ...

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Samuel Bak Museum

10 Naugarduko street, Vilnius Tel: +370 5 212 0112 Titulinis – Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus

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Gateshead Yeshiva

88 Windermere Street, Gateshead NE8 1UB Tel : + 44 191 477 2616 Gateshead Yeshiva Alumni

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Gateshead

EnglandOther cities in England

The presence of Jews in this industrial city in northern England is relatively recent. At the end of the 19th century, Zachariah Bern from Newcastle-upon-Tyne created the impetus for the ...

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Chabad House

37 A Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AH Tel + 44 7825 126 724 Chabad of Cambridge | chabad house | 37A Castle Street, Cambridge, UK

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Cambridge

EnglandOther cities in England

The first administrative traces of the presence of Jews in Cambridge seems to date from the 13th century. About fifty Jewish families are recorded in documents between 1224 and 1240. In 1275, the ...

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Witton cemetery

The Ridgeway, College Road, Erdington, Birmingham Tel: + 44 121 643 0884

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Solihull Synagogue

3 Monastery Drive, Solihull, West Midlands, B91 1DW Tel: + 44 121 706 8736 www.solihullshul.org

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Birmingham Central Synagogue

4 Speedwell Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B5 7PR Tel: + 44 121 440 4044 Central Shul – Birmingham Central United Synagogue

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Birmingham

EnglandOther cities in England

Around 1730, the first Jews settled in the city of Birmingham. The city’s first glass kiln was built by Meyer Oppenheim around 1760. A synagogue was established in the 1780s in the Froggery ...

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Hove Cemetery

Old Shoreham Road, Hove, BN3 7EF Tel : + 44 1273 735343

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Meadow View Cemetery

Bevendean Road (off Bear Road), Brighton BN2 4DE Tel : +44  7775 653897

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Synagogue of Nantes

5 impasse Copernic, 44004 Nantes Tél : 02 40 73 48 92 Synagogue de Nantes – Consistoire de Nantes

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Brest

FranceBrittany

During the 1808 census, only the presence of 34 Jews was counted in the department. In 1816, Simon and Michel Lipman, merchants, asked for the possibility of obtaining a Jewish cemetery in Brest. ...

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Rennes

FranceBrittany

At the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine, Rennes was an important city in the Middle Ages. Today known for its large student population and as a very prosperous city appreciated by tourists ...

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Saint-Malo

FranceBrittany

, nicknamed the “rue des juifs” near the Qui qu’i ‘en grogne tower, leads to what is now Place Chateaubriand. As early as the 16th century, we find traces of a Jewish ...

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Brittany

France

Little is known about the history of the Jews in Gallo-Roman Armorica before the Council of Vannes which, around 465, legislated on their relations with clerics. Their ancient and lasting ...

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Nantes

FranceBrittany

Land near the ramparts of Nantes was sold by Guillaume to Théodore, a Jew from Rennes, and to the Jews of Nantes to establish a cemetery. Nevertheless, five years later, the Jews of the region ...