JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. THE JEWISH NÜREMBERG/GERMANY
The Former Synagogue Memorial - Nurenberg/Germany Sunday, Sivan 3, 5777. May 28, 2017. Shalom! World. Nuremberg, city in Bavaria, Germany. A report of 1146 c.e. records that many Jews from Rhenish towns fled to Nuremberg, but Jews are first mentioned in the city in 1182. By the 13th century a large number of Jews were resident there. In reply to an enquiry from Weissenburg in 1288, the mayor and council of Nuremberg pointed out tje laws then governing Jewish moneylending in the city. The memorbuch ascribe to Nuremberg by S. Salfeld would prove that a Synagogue was consencrated there in 1296. Two years later, 728 Jews were victims of the Rindfleisch persecutions, among them Mordecai b. Hillel, author of the Mordekhai. Jews are mentioned in Nuremberg again in 1303. In 1313 Henry VII allowed the Schultheiss ("mayor") to admitmore Jews and granted him their protection dues. However, two years later King Louis IV of Bavaria (1314-47) allowed the council to demolish th...