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    The history of the Jews in Alsace is one of the oldest in Europe. It was first attested to in 1165 by Benjamin of Tudela, who wrote about a "large number...
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  • The history of Alsace has been influenced by the Rhine and its tributaries, a favorable climate, fertile loess soils, and the region's relative accessibility...
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    The history of the Jews in France deals with Jews and Jewish communities in France since at least the Early Middle Ages. France was a centre of Jewish...
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    towns. Though little is known about the early history of the Jews of Alsace, there is a lot of information from the 12th century onwards. They were successful...
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    The history of the Jews in Switzerland extends back at least a thousand years. Jews and Judaism have been present in the territory of what is now Switzerland...
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  • Sephardi Jews are those Jews coming from the Iberian Peninsula and settled in the Philippines, particularly, in Northern Samar. Some, called Crypto-Jews, observed...
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    The beginnings of the history of the Jews in Besançon go back to the Middle Ages, a period during which the Jews settled in the city attracted by its...
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    former synagogue, the museum describes the Jewish culture and history of the Jews of Alsace. History of the Jews in Alsace List of museums in France le Musée...
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    Alsace–Lorraine (German: Elsaß–Lothringen), officially the Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine (German: Reichsland Elsaß–Lothringen), was a former territory...
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    The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321 CE, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High...
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  • Among the many Jews migrating to Basel from Alsace was the family of the young Alfred Dreyfus, who gained fame in the so-called “Dreyfus affair.” The hatred...
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    Ashkenazi Jews (/ˌɑːʃkəˈnɑːzi, ˌæʃ-/ A(H)SH-kə-NAH-zee; Hebrew: יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, romanized: Yehudei Ashkenaz, lit. 'Jews of Germania'; Yiddish: אַשכּנזישע...
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  • Alphonse Kahn (category French Jews)
    cemetery (division 30). Galeries Lafayette Theophile Bader History of the Jews in Alsace Acte de décès (avec date et lieu de naissance) à Paris 17e,...
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  • financing the expenses of the emperor. Josel of Rosheim remains a major figure of the History of Jews in Alsace. One of his ancestors was Jacob ben Jehiel Loans...
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    believed that the room next to the square room was used for people to undress before entering the Mikvah. History of the Jews in Alsace Base Mérimée:...
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  • Jews have been present in El Salvador since the early 19th century, starting with Sephardic Jews and continuing with the arrival of refugees from Europe...
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    restrictions on the Jews' ability to migrate. The decree prevented the Jews from relocating to the regions of Alsace and required that Jews wishing to move...
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  • The history of the Jews in Natchez, Mississippi starts before the 1840s, and most likely precedes verifiable records. By the late 19th century, the Jewish...
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    The Assembly of Alsace (French: Assemblée d'Alsace, Alsatian: Versammlung vum Elsàss) is the deliberative assembly which has administered the European...
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    in the historic Alsace region on the left bank of the Rhine. Founded by the Romans in 12 BC, the city passed under the control of the Merovingians in...
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    Colmar Treasure (category Culture in Alsace)
    2019 the Treasure was exhibited at The Cloisters, part of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Erfurt Treasure History of Jews in Alsace Treasures of the...
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    oversaw the expulsion of Jews into unoccupied France from their Gaues and the parts of Alsace-Lorraine that had been annexed in the summer of 1941 to the Reich...
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  • Hirtzel Levy (category 18th-century French Jews)
    from the gallows, enshrouded in a tallit, and buried in the Jewish cemetery of Jungholtz. Antisemitism in France History of the Jews in Alsace  This...
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    Colmar (redirect from Colmar, Alsace)
    a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and...
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    Judenfrei (redirect from Jew-free)
    local Jews forced to leave the towns. German-occupied Bydgoszcz (Poland) – reported judenfrei in December 1939.[citation needed] German-annexed Alsace – reported...
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    Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne (category 19th-century French Jews)
    (1 May 1814, Strasbourg, Alsace, France – 6 May 1884, Ein Karem, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire) was a French Jew who converted to Christianity...
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  • Infamous Decree (category Jewish French history)
    1809 there were more than 2,900 Jews in Paris, while the Jewish population of Alsace grew to more than 46,000. Many Jews continued to live as lower-class...
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  • Thumbnail for Blood libel
    falsely accuses Jews of murdering Christians in order to use their blood in the performance of religious rituals. Echoing very old myths of secret cultic...
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    Robert Heinrich Wagner (category Members of the Reichstag 1933)
    of Baden, and Chief of Civil Administration for Alsace during the German occupation of France in World War II. Robert Wagner was born in Lindach in the...
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    Château d'Ingwiller (category Jewish organizations established in the 1800s)
    Jewish history and heritage. France portal Judaism portal Architecture portal History of the Jews in Alsace History of the Jews in France List of synagogues...
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