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Place in France

What happened to the Jews in Alsace

118 events, 1095 AD to 2018 AD

11th century

  1. 1095 AD Burning of Jews of Strasburg during the First Crusade · Strasbourg, France

12th century

  1. 1146 AD Violence against Jews during the Second Crusade · Strasbourg, France
  2. c. 1189–1190 AD Persecution of Strasbourg Jews during the Third Crusade · Strasbourg, France

13th century

  1. c. 1260 AD Jews of Weissenburg accused of ritual murder and expelled · Wissembourg (Weissenburg), France
  2. 1270 AD Blood libel charge at Weissenburg · Wissembourg (Weissenburg), France
  3. 1279 AD Destruction of the Colmar synagogue by fire · Colmar, France
  4. 1285 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Colmar · Colmar, France
  5. 1285 AD Meïr of Rothenburg held for ransom · Colmar, France
  6. 1288 AD Ritual murder libel and killing of forty Jews in Alsace · Alsace, France
  7. 1292 AD Ritual murder accusation and riot in Colmar · Colmar, France
  8. 1296 AD Jew of Sulzmatt hanged by the feet · Soultzmatt (Sulzmatt), France
  9. 1299 AD Jew murdered at Ensisheim · Ensisheim, France

14th century

  1. 1308 AD Jews of Rufach and Sulzmatt imprisoned and burned · Rouffach (Rufach), France
  2. 1336–1337 AD Armleder massacres · Bavaria, Germany and elsewhere
  3. 1337 AD Armleder massacre and banishment of Jews of Rappoltsweiler · Ribeauvillé (Rappoltsweiler), France
  4. 1337 AD Armleder massacres of Jews in Alsace · Alsace, France
  5. 1337 AD Jew burned at Strasburg for alleged killing of a girl · Strasbourg, France
  6. 1338 AD Armleder riots in Mulhouse · Mulhouse, France
  7. 1338 AD Jews expelled from the bishopric of Upper Alsace · Alsace, France
  8. 1338 AD Persecutions of Alsace Jewish communities (1338) · Alsace, France
  9. 1338 AD Second massacre of the Jews of Rufach · Rouffach (Rufach), France
  10. 1346 AD Confiscation, plunder and banishment of Jews of Hagenau · Haguenau, France
  11. 1346 AD Readmission of Jews to Hagenau · Haguenau, France
  12. 1347 AD Anti-Jewish persecutions in Alsatian towns · Alsace, France
  13. 1348 AD Burning of Colmar Jews during the Black Death · Colmar, France
  14. 1348 AD Colmar Jew tortured into accusing Strasburg cantor of poisoning · Colmar, France
  15. 1348 AD Obernai tortures five Jews over well-poisoning · Obernai, France
  16. 1349 AD Black Death persecution annihilates Rappoltsweiler community · Ribeauvillé (Rappoltsweiler), France
  17. 1349 AD Charles IV claims Strasburg Jews' loan proceeds · Strasbourg, France
  18. 1349 AD Destruction of the Jewish community of Haguenau in the Black Death · Haguenau, France
  19. 1349 AD Jews burned at Schlettstadt · Sélestat (Schlettstadt), France
  20. 1349 AD Plunder of the Strasburg synagogue and Grusselhorn libel · Strasbourg, France
  21. 1349 AD Strasbourg massacre · Strasbourg, France
  22. 1349 AD Well-poisoning libel against the Jews during the Black Death · Strasbourg, France
  23. 1349–1368 AD Ban on Jews entering Strasburg · Strasbourg, France
  24. 1354 AD Jews permitted to return to Haguenau · Haguenau, France
  25. 1369 AD Jews readmitted to Strasburg · Strasbourg, France
  26. c. 1375 AD Jews readmitted to Colmar · Colmar, France
  27. 1385 AD Jews readmitted to Colmar · Colmar, France
  28. 1385–1386 AD Wenceslaus seizes Swabian Jews' books and expels Strasbourg Jews · Strasbourg, France
  29. 1386 AD Strasburg Jews fined 20,000 florins · Strasbourg, France
  30. 1386 AD Wenceslaus expels Strasbourg's Jews · Strasbourg, France
  31. 1386 AD Wenceslaus orders dress laws and Jewish badge garments at Strasburg · Strasbourg, France
  32. 1387 AD Jew beaten and expelled from Strasburg cathedral · Strasbourg, France
  33. 1387 AD Ritual sacrifice accusation at Strasburg · Strasbourg, France
  34. 1387 AD Wenceslaus bans Jews of Colmar, Schlettstadt and Hagenau over taxes · Colmar, France
  35. 1387–1388 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Strasburg · Strasbourg, France
  36. 1392 AD Wenceslaus annuls Jewish debt claims · Colmar, France
  37. 1397 AD Well-poisoning story in Upper Alsace · Alsace, France

15th century

  1. 1436 AD Sigismund bars Hagenau citizens from renting or selling houses to Jews · Haguenau, France
  2. 1437 AD Edict barring house sales or rentals to Jews · Colmar, France
  3. 1476 AD Swiss Confederates plunder Colmar Jews · Colmar, France
  4. 1476–1477 AD Renewed violence against Alsatian Jews · Alsace, France
  5. 1476–1478 AD Council bars Jews from entering Colmar · Colmar, France
  6. 1479 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Schlettstadt · Sélestat (Schlettstadt), France

16th century

  1. 1510 AD Colmar synagogue and cemetery given to Jean Spiegel · Colmar, France
  2. 1510 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Alsace · Alsace, France
  3. 1510–1512 AD Banishment of the Jews from Colmar · Colmar, France
  4. c. 1512 AD Confiscation of Colmar synagogue and cemetery · Colmar, France
  5. c. 1512 AD Costly toll on Jews entering Strasbourg · Strasbourg, France
  6. 1512 AD Toll and yellow badge imposed on Jewish traders · Colmar, France
  7. 1520 AD Jews restricted to stranger hours and made to wear yellow badge · Strasbourg, France
  8. 1521 AD Imperial edict restricts Jewish business at Schlettstadt · Sélestat (Schlettstadt), France
  9. 1528 AD Town expulsion order against Jews of Haguenau revoked · Haguenau, France
  10. 1529 AD Total expulsion of the Jews from Schlettstadt · Sélestat (Schlettstadt), France
  11. 1530 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Ribeauvillé · Ribeauvillé, France
  12. 1530 AD Jews restricted to loans against movable pledges · Colmar, France
  13. 1534 AD Law forbidding harboring of Jews in Colmar · Colmar, France
  14. 1539 AD Ban on Christians contracting with Jews · Strasbourg, France
  15. 1541 AD Charles V permits Colmar to bar Jews · Colmar, France
  16. 1547 AD Arrest of Marranos in Colmar · Colmar, France
  17. 1561 AD Ban on non-resident Jews attending Hagenau synagogue · Haguenau, France
  18. 1574 AD Expulsion of Jews from Austrian Alsace · Alsace, France
  19. c. 1590–1599 AD Banishment of Jews from Rappoltsweiler · Ribeauvillé (Rappoltsweiler), France

17th century

  1. 1613 AD Archduke Leopold's decree restricting Alsatian Jews · Alsace, France
  2. 1622 AD Colmar refuses entry to a Jewish horse-dealer · Colmar, France
  3. 1639 AD Interrogation and search of Jews at Strasbourg gates · Strasbourg, France
  4. c. 1640–1660 AD Jews readmitted to Rappoltsweiler under protection tax · Ribeauvillé (Rappoltsweiler), France
  5. 1648 AD Ban on horse sales to Jews outside Strasbourg horse market · Strasbourg, France
  6. 1657 AD Mob burns Jews at Dachstein · Dachstein, France
  7. 1672 AD Additional protection tax levied on Alsatian Jews · Alsace, France
  8. 1681 AD Strasburg maintains old statutes against Jews after capitulation · Strasbourg, France
  9. 1691 AD Jews again allowed into Colmar · Colmar, France

18th century

  1. 1714 AD Hagenau edict against sheltering foreign Jews and Sunday trading · Haguenau, France
  2. 1720 AD Hagenau residence regulations limiting Jewish families · Haguenau, France
  3. 1726 AD Destruction of three Alsatian synagogues ordered · Wintzenheim, France
  4. 1733 AD Jews forbidden to bake bread on Sundays · Alsace, France
  5. 1735 AD Ban on Hebrew characters in Jewish accounts · Alsace, France
  6. 1740 AD Jews forbidden to live in the same houses as Christians · Alsace, France
  7. 1754 AD Mirtzel Lévi martyred after unjust trial · Colmar, France
  8. 1761 AD Violence against Jews in Alsace · Alsace, France
  9. 1768–1771 AD Cerfbeer permitted to reside in Strasburg · Strasbourg, France
  10. 1784 AD Repeal of the Leibzoll body-tax · Alsace, France
  11. 1784 AD Royal edict relieves Alsatian Jews of certain taxes · Alsace, France
  12. 1785 AD Abolition of the corporal toll on Jews · Strasbourg, France
  13. 1789 AD Jews allowed to settle in Colmar again · Colmar, France
  14. 1789 AD Peasant attacks on Jews in the Sundgau · Alsace, France
  15. 1790 AD Forced baptism of a Jewish child at Obernai · Obernai, France
  16. c. 1790–1791 AD Citizenship rights granted to Jews by the National Assembly · Strasbourg, France
  17. 1791 AD Jews imprisoned at Issenheim over ox tongues · Issenheim, France
  18. 1792 AD Jews admitted to Strasbourg to take the civic oath · Strasbourg, France
  19. 1792 AD Sacking of Jewish homes and synagogue at Voegtlinshoffen · Vœgtlinshoffen, France
  20. 1793 AD Ban on circumcision and beards in Strasbourg district · Strasbourg, France
  21. 1793 AD Jews guillotined or transported by Lower Rhine tribunal · Alsace, France
  22. 1793 AD Order to burn Hebrew books in Strasbourg district · Strasbourg, France
  23. c. 1793–1794 AD Seizure and burning of Jewish books in Strasbourg · Strasbourg, France
  24. 1794 AD Arrest of rabbis and cantors in Schlettstadt and Altkirch districts · Sélestat (Schlettstadt), France
  25. 1794 AD Destruction of Jewish gravestones in Saverne · Saverne, France
  26. 1794 AD Execution of a Jew in the Lower Rhine during the Terror · Alsace, France
  27. 1794 AD Fines and imprisonment of Jews during the Terror in Alsace · Alsace, France

19th century

  1. 1848 AD Anti-Jewish attacks in Sundgau, Alsace · Alsace, France

20th century

  1. c. 1939–1945 AD Expulsion of Colmar Jews and ransacking of synagogue in WWII · Colmar, France
  2. 1940 AD "Aktion Burckel" deports Jews to southern France · Alsace, France
  3. 1940 AD Confiscation of Jewish property in Strasbourg · Strasbourg, France
  4. 1940 AD Expulsion of Jews from Alsace · Alsace, France
  5. c. 1940–1944 AD Nazi destruction of the Quai Kléber synagogue · Strasbourg, France
  6. 1992 AD Increase in desecrations of Jewish sites in Alsace · Alsace, France

21st century

  1. 2018 AD Jewish cemetery desecrated in Strasbourg, France · Strasbourg, France

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