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
The history of the Jews in Austria starts after the exodus of Jews from Judea under Roman occupation. There have been Jews in Austria since the 3rd century CE. Over the course of many centuries, the p
Maria Theresa of Austria
Samson Wertheimer
Franz Joseph I of Austria
Leopoldstädter Tempel, one of the many synagogues in the neighborhood of Leopoldstadt, Vienna