The history of the Jews in Speyer reaches back over 1,000 years. In the Middle Ages, the city of Speyer (formerly Spira), Germany, was home to one of...

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The history of Speyer begins with the establishment of a Roman camp in 10 BCE, making it one of Germany's oldest cities. Its name evolved from Spira,...

The history of the Jews in Mainz goes back to the 1000s. The Jewish Community of Mainz had significance throughout Europe in the High Middle Ages, was...

his 1941 novel The Living Light (Verlag der Buchgemeinde Bonn), about the life of St. Hildegard of Bingen. History of the Jews in Speyer Johannes Emil...

slaughter of German Jews, while others fled in large numbers to Poland. The Jewish communities of the cities of Mainz, Speyer and Worms became the center of Jewish...

The history of the Jews in the United States goes back to the 1600s and 1700s There have been Jewish communities in the United States since colonial times...

used the phrase "Final Solution" as a euphemism for their genocide of Jews. Jews have lived in Europe for more than two thousand years. Throughout the Middle...

Ashkenazi Jews (/ˌɑːʃkəˈnɑːzi, ˌæʃ-/ A(H)SH-kə-NAH-zee; also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim) constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the...

continued the protection of Jews during the First Crusade. During the attack on Speyer, John saved many of the Jews, providing them protection in his castle...

The history of the Jews in Worms goes back to late antiquity. The Jewish Community of Worms (קהילה קדושה ווירמייזא, the "Holy Community of Worms") was...

The Jewish courtyard in Speyer (also known as the Speyer Jewry-Court), is an historic and archeological site located in the inner city of Speyer, Germany...

represent the remainder of those original American Jews along with an array of other Jewish communities, including more recent Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, Beta...

overwhelm the Jewish ghetto in the end and killed all of its Jews. At Speyer, Jewish corpses were disposed in wine casks and cast into the Rhine. By late...

decades by the leaders of three of the central cities of Medieval Rhineland Jewry: Speyer, Worms, and Mainz. The initials of the Hebrew names for these...

The history of the Jews in Heilbronn goes back to the 1000s. The Jewish Community of Heilbronn has a long history. An important settlement of Jews in...

German Jews a contribution of 3,000 florins toward the expenses of the French war (the French having at this time allied with the Turks). In the Speyer letter...

in demographics than the Ashkenazi Jews themselves, and then to all parts of the world with the migrations of Jews who identified as "Ashkenazi Jews"...

of Basel. While there were still about 2000 Jews in Basel in 1980, the number sank to 1218 in 2004 and to just over 1100 in 2009. History of the Jews...

This timeline of antisemitism chronicles events in the history of antisemitism, hostile actions or discrimination against Jews as members of a religious...

in Polish and Chapiro in French (more at "See also"), is a Jewish Ashkenazi surname. The surname is derived from Spira, the medieval name of Speyer in...

1892 and was chairman of Speyer Brothers, the British branch of the Speyer family's international finance house, and a partner in the German and American...

he-Hasid of Speyer (Hebrew: שמואל החסיד; 1120–1175), was a Tosafist, liturgical poet, and philosopher of the 12th century, surnamed also "the Prophet"...

instead of Ethiopic characters. The Beta Israel, or Ethiopian Jews, are a Jewish diaspora group that lived for thousands of years in the territory of the Kingdom...

killed many Jews. Entire communities, like those of Treves, Speyer, Worms, Mainz, and Cologne, were murdered by armed mobs. About 12,000 Jews are said to...

attacking the castle, but killed any unconverted Jew that fell into their clutches. Henry I, Archbishop of Mainz admitted into his house some Jews pursued...

attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire (mostly within the Pale of Settlement). Retrospectively, similar attacks against Jews which occurred in other times...

in the history of German Jews between 1933 and 1945 was so widely reported as it was happening, and the accounts from foreign journalists working in Germany...

Jewish family who lived in Italy, mostly in Lucca and in Rome, which, after the settlement at Mainz and Speyer of several of its members, took during...

date to the Middle Ages, in the 10th and 11th centuries. Jews have some of the largest varieties of surnames among any ethnic group, owing to the geographically...