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House of Hasday Ben Saprut
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San Andres Chapel
Calle San Andrés, 23004 Jaén +34 953 23 74 22
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Maestra street
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Jaen Cathedral
Plaza de Santa María, s/n, 23002 Jaén +34 953 23 42 33 Catedral de Jaén – Santa Iglesia Catedral de la Asunción de la Virgen (catedraldejaen.org)
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Baeza Gate
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Calle del Gato
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Villardompardo palace
Plaza Sta. Luisa de Marillac, s/n, 23004 Jaén +34 953 24 80 68
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santa Clara street, Jaen
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san Andres street, Jaen
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santa Cruz street, Jaen
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Jaen
The presence of a Jewish community in Jaen is first recorded in 612 when a king’s edict forbade Jews to own Christian slaves. If the Jewish population reached its peak during the seventh century, there were most probably Jews already during the Roman period. The geographer Abd al Nur Al-Himyari mentions during the ninth century a mikveh in Jaen, known as Isaac bath. The walls of the ...
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Romain Gary Statue
Jono Basanavičiaus gatvė, Vilnius, Lituanie
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Vilnius Ghetto map
Rūdninkų gatvė 18, Vilnius, Lituanie
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Izmir
It is unknown how far in the past a Jewish community existed in Izmir. When we speak of the Jews of Izmir, usually the Sephardic Jews who immigrated from Spain and Portugal between 1492 and 1497 come to mind. However, it has been proven that there was a Jewish settlement in Izmir as soon as the antique age. There is an evidence that a Jewish community existed in Izmir during the ...
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Compiègne
The Compiègne Memorial was inaugurated in 2008. Since then, more than 90000 people visited the museum. Between 1941 and 1944, this camp was one of the principal transit points of France. About 45000 were imprisoned in Compiègne: political prisoners, mostly communists, and foreigners (Russians, Americans and Jews). The museum is now housed in the barracks.
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Ingwiller
The Jewish presence in Ingwiller seems to date from 1347, the date of an administrative document attesting to this. Under the regency of the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg, they enjoyed greater individual and economic freedom than many other towns in the region. The Jewish community grew throughout the 18th century, from 13 families in 1716 to 25 in 1766. The development of spiritual life ...
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Hochfelden
The Jewish presence in Hochfelden seems to date from the 16th century. Built in 1841 and a historical monument since 1996, the synagogue of Hochfelden is a classic example of Alsatian synagogue architecture. It was preceded and even accompanied by another synagogue, built in the 17th century. Next to the synagogue was a mikveh, the former rabbi’s house and a Jewish school. The synagogue ...
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Haguenau
Haguenau is one of the oldest Jewish communities in Alsace. The Jews lived there almost without interruption since the Middle Ages, probably in the 12th century, and enjoyed the same freedoms as the other inhabitants, except for a few episodes, mainly of a more national scope, affecting all regions. The Jewish population increased from 34 families in 1735 to 64 in 178. The first synagogue was ...
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Ettendorf
The Jewish presence in the villages surrounding Haguenau seems to date at least from the 14th century. In Ettendorf in particular, two Jewish families are recorded in administrative documents in 1449. In the Middle Ages, Ettendorf was home to a large Jewish community and many scholars who came to study in its famous rabbinical school, sometimes with more than a hundred students. Ettendorf is ...
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Erstein
The Jews of Erstein were not allowed to settle in the city until 1850. Some were allowed to work there during the day, but had to return in the evening to the towns in the region that were more open to Jewish emancipation. The synagogue was inaugurated in 1882. It was destroyed in April 1941 by the Nazis, its contents auctioned off at that time. Of the 100 Jews living in Erstein in 1939, only ...
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Diemeringen
The Jewish presence in Diemeringen seems to date from the 17th century. Only 14 Jewish families lived there on the eve of the French Revolution. The community of Diemeringen was organized – synagogue, religious school and mikveh – around the rue des Juifs (today rue du Vin). The community grew mainly in the 19th century, reaching 139 people in 1870. The war, and then the rural ...
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Dambach-la-Ville
The Jewish community of Dambach-la-Ville dates back to the seventeenth century and so is the synagogue which was renovated in 1850. After the community disappeared, it was donated to the town in 1947 and transformed into a theatre. Renovation work, including the installation of an air conditioning system, led to the discovery in 2012 of a formidable treasure: a genizah (a ritual repository of ...
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Brumath
The first mention of a Jewish family in Brumath dates back to 1562. Documents from the end of the century mention the presence of a Jew named Susskind. In 1693, 4 Jewish families were registered in Brumath and, in 1766, their number rose to 9. The French Revolution gave Brumath, as in the rest of the country, access to citizenship for Jews. This allowed the Jewish community not only to settle ...
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Benfeld
The Jewish presence in Benfeld dates back from the Roman Empire. During the Middle-Age the community was lively and as important as the one in Strasbourg. The Jews were expelled from the city during the 1349 black plague, then drawn or burnt on the same year during the Saint Valentin massacre. From this date, Benfeld was forbidden to Jews until the eighteenth century. The community reformed ...
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Barr
Banned from the communes attached to the bishopric of Strasbourg until the French Revolution, the Jews made a timid return to the region afterwards. Of the 800 Jews present in the surrounding villages in 1784, there were none in the town of Barr. Nevertheless, the town gradually welcomed Jews, mainly from Zellwiller, allowing a community to take shape in the second half of the 19th century. ...
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Balbronn
The Jewish community of Balbronn is registered in the censuses of the city since 1665. Some medieval houses of the city center still bear the traces of mezuzot. is located 47-48 Balbach street, in what is commonly called “House of the Jews”. The house dates from 1638, although it started serving as a synagogue only in 1730. The prayer hall was on the first floor, the mikveh in ...
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Pergola
Jews settled in Pergola in the thirteenth century. The building which housed the synagogue can still be seen on Via Don Minzoni, 9. A Jewish cemetery was identified on the road to Mezzanotte, an excavation operation is ongoing.
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Macerata
There are little remaining traces of the Jewish presence in Macerata. You can nevertheless visit the which contains archives mentioning the presence of a Jewish community in the city since 1287. houses a tombstone with an Hebrew inscription from 1553 and referring to the passing of Rabbi Avigdor. The tombstone was probably transferred here from the old Jewish cemetery of Cappuccini ...
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Macerata Library
Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 62100 Macerata MC Tel +39 0733 232965 https://www.unimc.it/fr/services/bibliotheques
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Corridonia
Jews settled in Corridonia in 1436. The only remaining trace of this community is the ghetto entry gate located Via Antonio Mollari.
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