The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321 AD, and continued through the Early Middle Ages and High Middle Ages when Jewish immigrants from France founded the Ashkenazi Jewi
Worms Synagogue
Jews wearing the pileus cornutus depicted ca. 1185 in the Hortus deliciarum of the Abbess Herrad of Landsberg.
Mobs of French and German Crusaders led by Peter the Hermit ravaged Jewish communities in Speyer, Worms, and Mainz during the Rhineland massacres of 1096.
Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII meeting Jews in Rome, 1312
Ashkenazi Jews
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Ashkenazi Jews form a distinct ethnic subdivision of the Jewish diaspora, emerging from the Jewish communities that consolidated during the 10th century in the Rhineland and in northern France, having
History of the Jews in Germany
…continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries AD) and High Middle Ages (c. 1000–1299 AD) when Jewish immigrants from France founded the Ashkenazi Jewish community. The community survived under Charlemagne, but suffered during the Crusades. Accusations of well poisoning during the Black Death (1346–1353…
Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur (1878)
Jews from Worms (Germany) wearing the mandatory yellow badge, 16th century
The Old Synagogue in Erfurt, Germany is thought to be the oldest synagogue building intact in Europe
The distribution of Jews in Central Europe in 1881