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Jewish Communities in Germany

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Eisner, Frank, Freimark, Friedmann and 16 others
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  • Meyer Marx (1872 - 1890)
    Family history suggests that Meyer died in the Mississippi River at St. Louis at age 18. Information in the Secretary of State Missouri archives with a copy of the City of St. Louis Coroner's report ve...
  • Ida Mayer (1884 - 1942)
  • Leo Levi (1927 - 2001)
  • David Herzog (b. - 1785)
    See : ,,Rösel, auch Rosa, war verheiratet mit dem Handelsmann David, Sohn von Hirz Oettingen, das ist David Herz, der schon 1785 gestorbene Händler, der bereits auf der ersten Gemeindeliste von 1763 ve...
  • Hirz Oettingen (deceased)
    See : ,,Rösel, auch Rosa, war verheiratet mit dem Handelsmann David, Sohn von Hirz Oettingen, das ist David Herz, der schon 1785 gestorbene Händler, der bereits auf der ersten Gemeindeliste von 1763 ve...

This is an umbrella project for Jewish Communities in Germany.

Geni profiles should be added to the appropriate sub-projects of each of the Jewish Communities.==

THIS IS A LIST OF TOWNS. PROFILES SHOULD NOT BE INLCUDED IN THIS PROJECT AND SHOULD BE ADDED TO THE APPROPRIATE SUB PROJECT.

  • Please join the project (using the Actions menu) and link all related projects to this page.

You should also join any town projects that are of interest to you. Project collaborators can edit the project, start discussions, add photos and documents etc. For examples of well-developed town projects see the projects for Frankfurt or Guxhagen.

Overview

The first Jewish population in the region to be later known as Germany came with the Romans to the city now known as Cologne. A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion that followed the Crusades led to the creation of Yiddish and an overall shift eastwards. A change of status in the late Renaissance Era, combined with the Jewish Enlightenment – the Haskalah, meant that by the 1920s Germany had one of the most integrated Jewish populations in Europe, contributing prominently to German culture and society. The vast majority either left the country or were murdered in the Holocaust.

For further information on German-Jewish Genealogy see the German Jewish Special Interest Group (GerSIG) on JewishGen.

List of Jewish communities in Germany

German Jewish Communities Index

List of German Jews

Name Adoption (and other) Lists Includes various towns and cities in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bayern, Hessen, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Schleswig-Holstein, and Westphalen.

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  1. Preserving the History of German Jewry Arthur Obermayer
  2. Tracing German-Jewish Ancestry to the 17th Century And Much Earlier by Arthur Obermayer
  3. Famous German Jews , Geni Project
  4. Jewish settlement in Germany World Jewish Congress
  5. German Jewish Genealogy Resources / Archives
  6. JEWISH LIFE 1605-1965 IN JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN GERMANY: Staatsarchive - USHMM
  7. Verzeichnis der Rabbiner in jüdischen Gemeinden im Bereich Baden-Württembergs

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  1. Jews of the French German Nexus: Alsace, Lorraine / Rhineland
  2. Medieval Rhineland Jewry: Speyer, Worms and Mainz
  3. Medieval German/French Talmudists - The Tosafot
  4. German Jewry in the Weimar
  5. Notable German Jews

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