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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 other English Jewish communities of the Edict of expulsion of 1290. A moving synagogue From the resettlement of the Jews in England in the middle of the 17th century until the beginning of the 19th few ...
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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 medieval Jewish life in England. Yet their fate in the port city of Bristol was far from a picnic in the 13th century. All Jewish heads of household were sent to Bristol prisons in 1210 and forced to pay a ...
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10 Naugarduko street, Vilnius Tel +370 5 212 0112 https://www.jmuseum.lt/en/samuel-bak-museum-2/
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88 Windermere Street, Gateshead NE8 1UB Tel : + 44 191 477 2616 https://gyalumni.org/
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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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37 A Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AH Tel + 44 7825 126 724 https://www.cuchabad.org/
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3 Thompson’s Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8A https://www.ctjc.org.uk/contact
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Auckland Road, Cambridge CB5 8DW Tel + 44 1223 367842 Home
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West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR Tel : + 44 1223 333 000 https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/
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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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Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 6EQ. Tel: +44 121 643 0884
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The Ridgeway, College Road, Erdington, Birmingham Tel: + 44 121 643 0884
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3 Monastery Drive, Solihull, West Midlands, B91 1DW Tel: + 44 121 706 8736 www.solihullshul.org
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Roseland Way, Bishopgate Street, Birmingham, B15 1HD Tel: + 44 121 634 3888 www.bpsjudaism.com
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Blucher Street, Birmingham B1 1H Tel: + 44 121 643 0884 https://www.birminghamsynagogue.com/
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4 Speedwell Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B5 7PR Tel: + 44 121 440 4044 www.centralshul.com
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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘Apart from Versailles, I didn’t know you could talk about views’, declared Jean Gabin in the movie The Gentleman of Epsom. Versailles is indeed immortalised by its history, its kings and queens, its castle, its works of art and its gardens, as the busloads of tourists testify. But the town to the south-west of Paris has also been home to a very active Jewish life since the end of the ...
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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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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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