Cologneקלן

Rhineland (Germany)

Cologne (Köln), a city on the Rhine in western Germany, had one of the oldest Jewish communities in the German lands, attested in Roman times and again from the early medieval period. It was the birthplace, around 1269, of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher (the Baal HaTurim), author of the Arba'ah Turim, who later emigrated with his father, the Rosh (Asher ben Yechiel), to Toledo in Spain.

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