Nuremberg
Bavaria (Germany)
Nuremberg, a city in Franconia (Bavaria), southern Germany, had an important medieval Jewish community. Rabbi Mordechai ben Hillel HaKohen, author of the halachic work known as the Mordechai, was killed in Nuremberg during the Rintfleisch massacre of 1298; later the city was associated with the fifteenth-century authority Rabbi Yaakov Weil (the Mahari Weil).
3 teachers · 2 works · 1 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
- 1290
Mordechai
- 1405
Mahari Weil
by Mahari Weil
Ideas shaped here
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