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Baigneux-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 ...
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Auxerre
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 ...
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Pompeii
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 ...
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Capua
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 ...
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Benevento
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 ...
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Amalfi
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 ...
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Reggio
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 ...
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Serrastretta
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 ...
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Catanzaro
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 ...
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Venosa
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 ...
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Aquila
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. ...
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Calabria
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 ...
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Uzhhorod
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 ...
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Berehove
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 ...
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Chinon
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 ...
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Bourges
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 ...
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Tours
The Jewish presence in the city of Tours dates from at least the 6th century. In the Middle Ages there was a rue de la Juiverie, as well as a Jewish cemetery. However, as in all cities of France, ...
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Orléans
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 ...
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Chartres
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 ...
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Blois
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. ...
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Norrköping
At the end of the 18th century, with the emancipation of the Jews in the country, the city of Norrköping, like Goteborg and Stockholm, hosted its first synagogue, built by Jacob Marcus. Another ...
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Sarreguemines
The Jewish presence in Sarreguemines seems to date from the 13th century. However, the sustainability of this installation will only take place with the wind of emancipation of the French ...
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Sarrebourg
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 ...
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Epinal
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 ...
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Metzervisse
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 ...
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Forbach
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 ...
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Saint-Avold
The Jewish presence in Saint-Avold has been documented since the 15th century. A prior presence in not documented. A very small number of Jews were allowed to remain in the city in the 17th ...
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Thionville
The Jewish presence in Thionville probably dates from the 14th century. There seems to have been a Jewish cemetery in the following century. Very few families were granted the right to settle in ...
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Morhange
The Jewish presence is mentioned in Morhange at the end of the 17th century, apparently with the installation of the first Jewish family. In 1686, a complaint was filed by the inhabitants of the ...
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Lunéville
The Jewish presence in Lunéville is mentioned at the end of the 15th century, shortly before the expulsion from Lorraine. Only two families were allowed to settle in the city at the beginning of ...