In Tauberbischofsheim, an official town of the Electorate of Mainz until the beginning of the 19th century, there was a Jewish community in the Middle Ages and in modern times until 1939. Presumably, there were Jews in the town with only a few interruptions between the 13th and 20th centuries. In the Middle Ages the community suffered from four terrible persecutions of Jews in 1235, 1298 (with 130 deaths), 1336-39 and 1348/49, by which the community was almost completely wiped out in each case. Since the 17th century the number of Jews in the town increased again more strongly. In 1706 six Jewish heads of household and one widow paid protection money.
In1933 106 Jewish inhabitants were counted in Tauberbischofsheim. Due to the increasing disenfranchisement and reprisals, as well as the consequences of the economic boycott, a part of them emigrated or moved to other cities. About the atrocities in 1938/39 see below at the further links. The last Jewish inhabitants were deported to Gurs on October 22, 1940.
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