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French Jewish intellectual and cultural life flourished through the ages, producing some of the most famous Jewish Rabbis, Philosophers, Artists, Mathematicians, and Scientists. >> We welcome all contributors. =Early History* The Early Jews of France 700 - 1200 * Jewish community in Alsace and Lorraine * History of Jews in Alsace * Napoleon's Grand Sanhedrin
Three central cities of Medieval Rhineland Jewry were: Speyer, Worms, and Mainz. The initials of the Hebrew names for these cities, Shpira, Vermayza, and Magentza form the initials שו"ם (SHUM) . >>> The Jewish Traveler Mainz, Worms & Speyer>># Worms >># Mainz >># Speyer >>>>>>>>=The Takkanot Shum תקנות שו"ם The Takkanot Shum תקנות שו"ם , or Enactments of SHU"M were a set of decrees formulated ...