Jewish Cemetery in Worms or Heiliger Sand, in Worms, Germany, is usually called the oldest surviving Jewish cemetery in Europe, although the Jewish burials...
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The Jewish Community of Worms (קהילה קדושה ווירמייזא, the "Holy Community of Worms") was one of the oldest documented Jewish communities in the German-speaking...
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and Worms's first synagogue was erected in 1034. In 1096, 800 Jews were murdered by crusaders and the local mob. The Jewish Cemetery in Worms, dating...
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Jewish cemeteries of Warsaw Jewish Cemetery (Roßau) Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi Jewish Cemetery (Beirut) Jewish Cemetery (Worms) Old Jewish Cemetery (Prague)...
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The Worms massacre was the murder of at least 800 to 1000 Jews from Worms, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany), at the hands of crusaders under Count Emicho...
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The remaining Jewish sites in Worms, especially the reconstructed medieval synagogue and the old Jewish cemetery, a Jewish cemetery dating back to the...
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Ferdinand Eberstadt (mayor) (category People from Worms, Germany)
wife are buried in the Jewish cemetery. Eberstadt was born in Worms on 14 January 1808 to a Jewish family, which attested in Worms from the seventeenth...
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Meir of Rothenburg (category Rabbis from Worms, Germany)
Salomon Wimpfen, who was subsequently laid to rest beside him in the Jewish cemetery of Worms. According to Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin, Rabbi Meir was an expert...
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Samuel Adler (rabbi) (category Rabbis from Worms, Germany)
appointment as a preacher and assistant rabbi in Worms. In 1842, he was elected rabbi of the Jewish congregations in Alzey and remained in this position...
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de Worms, was a British Conservative politician. Henry de Worms was born in London on 20 October 1840, the third son of Solomon Benedict de Worms (1801–1882)...
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The Holocaust (redirect from Jewish Holocaust)
million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings...
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David Oppenheim (rabbi) (category Rabbis from Worms, Germany)
Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York 1944, p. 214. Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague#Important people "YIVO | Oppenheim, David". Yivoencyclopedia...
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History of the Jews in Germany (redirect from German-Jewish)
in large numbers to Poland. The Jewish communities of the cities of Mainz, Speyer and Worms became the center of Jewish life during medieval times. "This...
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Ida Straus (category People from Worms, Germany)
popular among Jewish Americans. Isidor's body was recovered but Ida's was not. A cenotaph at the Straus Mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx is...
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History of the Jews in Speyer (redirect from Jewish community of Speyer)
Jüdische Alterthümer in Worms und Speyer, pp. 13–31, Breslau, 1896; Rothschild, L. in: Die Judengemeinden in Mainz, Speier, und Worms, 1349–1438, Berlin,...
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Ashkenazi Jews (redirect from Ashkenazi Jewish)
where, especially in the Rhineland communities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz, the most important Jewish communities arose. Rashi uses leshon Ashkenaz (Ashkenazi...
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Frankfurter Judengasse (category Jewish museums in Germany)
(after Worms). The best known grave in the cemetery is Mayer Amschel Rothschild's tomb. From 1828 until 1929 Jews were buried in the Jewish Cemetery, next...
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Oklahoma. A village cemetery in Jednorożec, Poland. Jewish cemetery "Heiliger Sand" in Worms, Germany. Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery is the last resting...
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Juspa Schammes (category People from Worms, Germany)
there. He performed numerous tasks in the Jewish community of Worms. He was schammes (caretaker) of Worms Synagogue and scribe. In the latter function...
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Rashi (category Rabbis from Worms, Germany)
continued learning in Worms for another year in the yeshiva of his relative, Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi, who was also chief rabbi of Worms. Then he moved to...
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Mayer Amschel Rothschild (category Jewish bankers)
on 19 September 1812 in Frankfurt am Main. He was buried at the old Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt, located next to the Judengasse. His grave still exists...
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Koblenz [de] Leipzig: Brühl) Speyer: Jewish community of Speyer Stuttgart: Judengasse [de] Trier: Judengasse [de] Worms Greece Rhodes: La Juderia Hungary...
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Judah Loew ben Bezalel (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)
town mistakenly as Worms in the Holy Roman Empire—to Rabbi Bezalel (Loew), whose family originated from the Rhenish town of Worms. Perels claimed that...
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buried at Willesden Jewish Cemetery at Beaconsfield Road, Willesden, in the London Borough of Brent, England. Willesden Jewish Cemetery, which opened in...
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Rhineland massacres (category Jewish French history)
Emicho. As part of this persecution, the destruction of Jewish communities in Speyer, Worms and Mainz was noted as the Hurban Shum (Destruction of Shum)...
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Pfeddersheim (redirect from Worms-Pfeddersheim)
a borough of Worms, despite a court challenge in the administrative court at Koblenz. In Pfeddersheim, there is an old Jewish cemetery, which was used...
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Cemetery), with 4.05 km2 largest cemetery on Earth. Becklingen War Cemetery (CWGC) Norden Balve, for Russian soldiers Worms, Jewish Cemetery in Worms...
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of state. He was the son of professor of political economics, Émile Worms. Worms was educated at the lyceum of his native city, at the Lycée Charlemagne...
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Mainz (section Early Jewish community)
Worms and Mainz" [de], which includes the Judensand [de] (Jews' Sand), the second-oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe after the Heiliger Sand in Worms....
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Alzey (category Alzey-Worms)
Verbandsgemeinde – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the fifth-largest town in Rhenish Hesse, after Mainz, Worms, Ingelheim am Rhein...
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