Metz

France

Metz, a city in Lorraine in northeastern France, was home to one of the wealthiest and most prominent Jewish communities in early-modern France. After Jewish resettlement was permitted in the mid-sixteenth century, the community flourished from 1648 until the French Revolution, maintaining a large yeshiva and choosing distinguished chief rabbis; among those who led it were Rabbi Jonah Teomim-Fraenkel and, in the eighteenth century, Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschütz (1742-1750).

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