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Gateshead
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 establishment of a community in Gateshead. Creation of Gateshead’s yeshiva In 1929, his son-in-law, Moshe David Freed, along with other students such as David Dryan and David Baddiel, established a in ...
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Chabad House
37 A Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AH Tel + 44 7825 126 724 https://www.cuchabad.org/
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Cambridge Traditional Jewish Congregation
3 Thompson’s Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8A https://www.ctjc.org.uk/contact
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Beth Shalom Synagogue
Auckland Road, Cambridge CB5 8DW Tel + 44 1223 367842 Home
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Cambridge University Library
West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR Tel : + 44 1223 333 000 https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/
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Cambridge
The first administrative traces of the presence of Jews in the city of Cambridge seem to date from the 13th century. About fifty Jewish families are recorded in documents between 1224 and 1240. In 1275, the Jews were expelled from Cambridge and the rest of the region under the tutelage of Eleonore de Provence, mother of Edward I. The latter expelled the Jews of the Kingdom by the Edict of ...
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Brandwood End Cemetery
Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 6EQ. Tel: +44 121 643 0884
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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 Progressive Synagogue
Roseland Way, Bishopgate Street, Birmingham, B15 1HD Tel: + 44 121 634 3888 www.bpsjudaism.com
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Birmingham Hebrew Congegration (BHC) Singers Hill
Blucher Street, Birmingham B1 1H Tel: + 44 121 643 0884 https://www.birminghamsynagogue.com/
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Birmingham Central Synagogue
4 Speedwell Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B5 7PR Tel: + 44 121 440 4044 www.centralshul.com
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Birmingham
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 district. Another synagogue was built in 1809 but was destroyed, along with other places of worship which did not meet the standards of the time, during riots in 1813. It was rebuilt and enlarged in ...
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Brest
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. Simon’s house was used as an oratory for the community of Brest. 50 years later, there are 59 Jews in Brest. At that time, a letter from the sub-prefecture mentioned the existence of an ...
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Rennes
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 for its many monuments, such as its magnificent theater. During the 1808 census, only the presence of 11 Jews was counted in the department. The resettlement of the Jews from Rennes took place in the ...
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Saint-Malo
, nicknamed the “rue des juifs” near the Qui qui en grogne tower, leads to what is now Place Chateaubriand. As early as the 16th century, we find traces of a Jewish presence. Mainly families of craftsmen and traders. The great writer Chateaubriand indicates in Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe that he was born in “this dark and narrow street of Saint-Malo called the rue des ...
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Brittany
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 establishment in Brittany is however attested in the 13th century, in Rennes, Fougères and, above all, in Nantes. The anti-Judaism which marks the crusades ends after a period of looting and murder, in their ...
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Nantes
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 are victims of looting and murder. Following the banishment of the Jews from Brittany ordered in Ploermel on April 10, 1240, it was not until the end of the 15th century to see the return of the Jews. ...
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Montbéliard
The presence of Jews in Montbéliard and in the region seems to date back to the 13th century. The expulsions will cause the departure of the Jews from the territory. There is a trace of a mention of a court painter, Solomon the Jew, in the 16th century. In the spirit of the French Revolution and the emancipation of Jews from France, Jews, mainly from Alsatian families, are settling in the ...
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Fontainebleau
It seems that the presence in Seine-et-Marne dates from the Middle Ages. Among the towns where they settled are Meaux, Lagny, Provins, Melun, Livry-sur-Seine, Bray-sur-Seine, Foljuif, Nemours, Château-Landon, Brie-Comte-Robert, Montoix, Pontault-Combault, Nangis, Lizy-sur-Ourcq, Coulommiers, Montereau-fault-Yonne, Donnemarie-en-Montois and Herbeauvilliers. Following the 1394 expulsion and the ...
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Clermont-Ferrand
The official formation of a community in Clermont-Ferrand dates back to 1808 when Israel Waël, who then headed it, donated a garden to establish a Jewish cemetery. David Marx, the Chief Rabbi of Bordeaux, inaugurated the Clermont-Ferrand synagogue on March 20, 1862. The on rue des Quatre-Passeports was built in a private house by local architect François-Louis Jarrier. This is thanks to a ...
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Nancy
A student city with magnificent museums, notably around the incomparable Stanislas Square, Nancy is one of the jewels of Lorraine, paying tribute to different periods of classical and modern art. The Jewish presence in Nancy appears to date back to the Middle Ages, as evidenced by their expulsion in 1176. The Duke of Lorraine encouraged the arrival of Jews in the early 13th century. He ...
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Lille
The Jewish presence in Lille is indicated from the Middle Ages. Many “rue des Juifs” existed in the region at this time, notably in Lille, Bavai, Maroilles and Sains. In 1023, thirty Jews from Lorraine were authorized by the Count of Baudouin to settle in the North, in the towns of Hautmont, Bavai and Cambrai. Like other Jewish communities in the region, Jews were expelled from the Kingdom in ...
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Versailles
The Jewish presence in Versailles dates back to the 18th century, when Jewish merchants from Comtat and Alsace settled there. The religious ceremonies of this small community are celebrated at the home of the officiating minister. Thanks to the arrival of Jews from Paris but also from Alsace, Lorraine and Germany, the community grew, mainly after 1870. It was then that the project of a large ...
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Toul
A very old Jewish community, Toul has hosted many great religious figures such as tosafists. Following threats of eviction from the region by religious authorities at the start of the 18th century, around 100 Jewish families were authorized by Duke Leopold to stay. Léon Cohen, an important figure in local Jewish life, would take part a century later in the General Assembly convened by ...
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Biarritz
The Jewish presence in Biarritz was very weak until the end of the 19th century. The Jews present are mainly attached to Bayonne for the celebrations of religious festivals and ceremonies. However, the transformation of the fishing town into a renowned summer and spa destination will be a game-changer. The community of Biarritz really took shape at the end of the 19th century, following a ...
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Belfort
If a Jewish presence is mentioned in documents from the Middle Ages, the establishment of a community rather took place at the end of the 18th century. Their presence in neighboring towns such as Foussemagne is older. The emancipation of the Jews of France with the spirit and authority of the French Revolution facilitates their installation. Thus, from 1791, they mainly lived in the old town. ...
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Place de la République
Around the Place de la République, you will find one of the oldest places in Paris attesting to the Jewish cultural heritage of Paris: the synagogue of Nazareth. But also very active cultural institutions such as the Cercle Bernard Lazare, the Center Medem and the Maison de la Culture Yiddish. By order of June 29, 1819, King Louis XVIII authorized the Consistory to build the first major in ...
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La Varenne Saint-Hilaire
Constructed in 1935, the was built following the installation of Parisian Jews in this pleasant suburb crossed by La Marne. Eminent rabbis such as Jacob Kaplan, Jean Kling, Meyer Jaïs and Jacob Madar officiate there. The distribution in places in the synagogue is quite classic. A vestibule precedes a nave. The sanctuary is marked by an apse. The reception of men on the ground floor and ...
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