Synagogue Nancy
| Synagogue Nancy | ||
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| Facade of the synagogue Nancy can read the inscription: " Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself "(Leviticus 19:18). | ||
| Contact | 48 41 '16 "North 6 10 '44 "East / 48.687639, 6.178889 | |
| Country | France | |
| Region | Lorraine | |
| Department | Meurthe-et-Moselle | |
| City | Nancy | |
| Worship | Jewish | |
| Type | synagogue | |
| Construction begins | 1788 | |
| Architect (s) | Charles-Augustin Piroux | |
| Style (s) dominating (s) | Classic | |
| Protection |  Joined MH ( 1984 ) | |
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The synagogue Nancy is a synagogue located at 17 Boulevard Joffre Nancy , where she was inaugurated in 1788 .
Summary |
The first Jewish community since the Middle Ages. Around 1470, a dozen Jewish families lived in Nancy but they were expelled in 1477. In the sixteenth century , there are a few Jewish families. This is an order in 1721 ducal formalizes the Jewish community of Nancy allowing four Jewish families reside in this town (see History of the Jews in Lorraine ). In fact the Jews were tolerated for one to two centuries.
The synagogue was built in 1788.
In 1832 , Baruch Gouguenheim, rabbi of Phalsbourg , is called the head of the synagogue of Nancy, he runs very strongly for eleven years. At his death, the Presbytery appointed Rabbi Salomon Ulmann , who performs this function from 1843 to 1854.
Jews have created in the city of Nancy emerging industries (spinning, weaving, shoe factories, embroidery, blast furnaces), and founded the department store on Rue Saint-Jean . The Jewish neighborhood was located near the synagogue at the site of the existing mall in San Sebastian, among the "street of the Grand Rabbi Haguenauer" and "Bridge Street" where the Jewish Cultural Association nancy.
The action of seven police officers of foreign service at police headquarters in Nancy has saved about three hundred Jews during the great raid organized in Nancy by the Nazis on 19 July 1942.
Recently, around 2007 or 2008 , the synagogue was surrounded by Nancy, controversial for reasons of safety, a fence of metal sheets, bars and grilles, at least 3 meters high, which completely hides the passers.
Currently the Jewish community of Nancy approximately 450 families.
The 55 Bridge Street
At this address was a Polish Jew oratory non Consistory. This building now houses the Jewish Cultural Association of Nancy.
Jewish Cemetery in Nancy
The Jewish section of the cemetery Preville , founded in 1840, is located at 2 Avenue de Boufflers. At the entrance to the cemetery, the monument of remembrance recalls the disappearance of part of the Jewish community of Nancy in the Shoah (the Holocaust victims in the thousands in Lorraine, seven cents to Nancy ). You can read a sentence in Yiddish :
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"Do not forget Auschwitz and remember all victims of Nazi Germany "
Near the entrance to a plate when glazed figure in Hebrew "prayer to the field of rest"
"Be praised Lord our Gd, King of the universe, He created you in His righteousness, you were fed and maintained by His righteousness, you did die by his justice, who in his righteousness and who knows your number one day you will rise again by His righteousness. Praise Yahweh, who raises the dead. "
and takes the second blessing of the Amidah (also missing a word in the sentence):
"You're never Almighty Lord, you raise the dead, thou art the Almighty to help References
- The Jewish Community of Nancy , site of Judaism in Alsace and Lorraine. Accessed July 31, 2007.
- Record No. PA00106319 , on the basis Merimee , Ministry of Culture.
- Christian Pfister , Nancy Story , Vol.?, Berger-Levrault & Co. , 1902, p. 335 .
- Philippe Boitel, The Jews of France, Descle de Brouwer , coll. "Our Story", 1995, 143 p. ( ISBN 2-220-03643-X ), p. 42 .
See also
Related articles
Bibliography
- Henry Schumann, Memory of Jewish communities: Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse and Vosges, Serpenoise , Metz, 2003, 79 p. ( ISBN 2-87692-585-0 )
- Job and Frances Francine Roze, Nancy Jews: From the twelfth to the twentieth century, Presses Universitaires de Nancy , et al. "The Jews in Lorraine, Nancy, 1991, 170 p. ( ISBN 2-86480-520-0 )
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