Rue Vergier-au-Duc
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Contenus associés au mot-clé “jewish community”
rue du Pont
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Clock Tower of Auxerre
Rue de la Draperie, 89000 Auxerre
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The presence of Chalonnais Jews dates to at least the 9th century, according to period documents relating to forced conversions. Some dating from the 12th century evoke the profession of winegrower exercised in particular by Jews from Chalonnais. The Jewish community had a cemetery located on what is now rue des Places and a mikvah in Saint-Jean-des-Vignes. Rue des Juifs was located on what ...
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The Jewish presence in Besançon seems to date from the 1st century, at least it is attested to the time by official documents. The Jewish quarter was historically around the Doubs river. Rue Juive was located on what is now . The Jewish cemetery was located opposite the Porte de Charmont. The Bisontine Jews were expelled in the 15th century. They were allowed to do this very sparingly. ...
Plus d'infosBaigneux-les-Juifs
The city bears the name of Bagnos (“small bath”) which will be completed in Baigneux-les-Juifs following the arrival of many Jews in this new agglomeration. The Jewish presence seems to date from the 13th century. The medieval synagogue was located . However, as in many other places in France in the end of the Middle Ages, the Jews were expelled from the city.
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The presence of Auxerre Jews in the capital of Yonne is attested by a letter from Rashi to the Talmudists in the region. One of the Jewish quarters was near Porte Féchelle. The old rue du Puits des Juifs is now . A stone on a wall of the contains a Hebrew inscription. Jews were expelled from the city several times between 1184 and 1393. The Auxerre Jews will once again be part of the city ...
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Via del Cimitero, 82100 Benevento
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Numerous epigraphic traces attest to the presence of Jews in Pompeii before the city was destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in 79. They also lived in the towns near Herculaneum and Stabia. Names of Jewish personalities have been found such as Fabius Eupor and Youdaikos. Historian Flavius Joseph mentions that a descendant of King Herod died during the eruption. In the ruins of ...
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The Jewish presence in Capua appears to date from the end of the Roman Empire. The ancestors of the liturgical poet Ahimaatz ben Paltiel lived in this city, occupying important roles in the financial management of Capua. According to Benjamin de Tudèle, who passed there, 300 Jews lived there in the middle of the 12th century. Between this period and the 15th century, Jews engaged in other ...
Plus d'infosBenevento
It seems that the Jewish presence in Benevento dates back to at least the 5th century. A yeshiva was established there in the 11th century by Hananeel ben Paltiel, a member of the family of the liturgical poet Ahimaatz ben Paltiel. Benjamin de Tudèle noted there the presence of 200 Jewish families. Which did not undergo the same expulsions from the Kingdom of Naples as the other communities, ...
Plus d'infosAmalfi
The first traces of the Jewish presence in Amalfi date back to the 10th century. Letters found in the genizah of Cairo attest to this in particular. This small community worked mainly in clothing and silk in particular. An international trade with exchanges in Egypt, hence the indications of these letters. Benjamin de Tudèle mentions there the presence of about twenty families in 1159, ...
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National Museum of Archaeology of Reggio
Piazza Giuseppe De Nava, 26, 89123 Reggio Calabria tel +39 0965 898272 https://www.museoarcheologicoreggiocalabria.it/
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Serrastretta synagogue
Vico I Indipendenza, 18, 88040 Serrastretta Home
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Santo Stefano, 88065 Catanzaro
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Strada provinciale Ofantina, Venosa tel + 39 0972 36095
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The Jewish presence in Reggio seems to date from the 4th century. However, official documents tracing this presence date from the 12th century. As in various towns in the region, the Jews worked mainly in the field of silk and wool. The first Hebrew books printed in Europe were printed in Reggio by Abraham Garton in 1475. The first Hebrew commentaries on the Hagaddah were also published there ...
Plus d'infosSerrastretta
In 2007, this small town in Calabria inaugurated the first synagogue opened in the region in 500 years. A project made possible thanks to the dedication of Barbara Aiello who was the first female rabbi in Italy, since 2004. Born in the United States, her family was originally from this city. Barbara Aiello’s father, who grew up there, participated as a soldier in the liberation of ...
Plus d'infosCatanzaro
The Jewish presence in Catanzaro dates from the end of the 11th century. In 1073, Robert Guiscard, the Norman conqueror, invited them to develop silk weaving there. They allowed the city to become the hotspot of this specialty in Italy, popular throughout this region. Benjamin of Tudela attested to the Jewish presence in it and its development. However, after two centuries of a relatively ...
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The Jewish presence in Venosa dates back to Roman times. Hebrew inscriptions have been found on site probably dating from the 3rd century. Funeral inscriptions present in have been discovered over time by archeological endeavors. These finds so far attest to 75 inscriptions present, but access to the catacombs has been complicated for a long time. In particular at such sites to be seen in ...
Plus d'infosAquila
The Jewish presence in Aquila seems to date from the end of the 13th century. Ladislaus, the King of Naples, allowed two Jewish families to settle there and carry on business activities. Authorizations were issued and then withdrawn over the centuries according to the variable-geometry leniency of political and religious leaders. Thus, in 1488, following particularly hostile sermons against ...
Plus d'infosCalabria
The South is very different from the rest of the Italian peninsula because of the Jewish presence that was brutally interrupted by the expulsion of 1510, as this is reflected in the rather small archaeological heritage. In Calabria, Jews did not live in the isolation of ghettos, but in their own neighborhoods, the “Giudecche”. Near Vibo Valentia (formerly Monteleone), on the ...
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Abruzzo
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Synagogue of Uzhhorod
Rus’ka St, 36, Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, 88000
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The terrifying war against Ukraine changes, of course, the function of these pages devoted to the Jewish cultural heritage of that country. Many of the places mentioned were razed to the ground by bombs. While these pages are not intended in the present time for tourism, they may be useful to researchers and students as historical references. References to so many painful histories during the ...
Plus d'infosJewish cemetery of Berehove
Vulytsia Pushkina, Berehove
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6 Vulytsya Zrini, Berehove
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