In 1367, the Jew Merkel von Altenburg was admitted as a citizen in Erfurt. 
By 1404, another four Jews with the name of origin von Altenburg were mentioned in Erfurt.

Jäckel von Altenburg perished in Eger in the course of the persecution of the Jews during the plague. 

Isaak Seligmann ran his money trading company. At the end of the 17th century, he and other associates caused concern to the Bancoamt, as they probably circumvented it as well as imported inferior coins to Nuremberg while "carrying off" higher-quality ones, which is why the office initiated a restriction on Jewish money trading in 1680.

The medieval Jewish community had a first cemetery in the 13th century, which was probably located in the area of the still existing "Judengasse". A few remains of this cemetery are still preserved by the fact that several stones were used, for example, in the construction of the Lorenzkirche and were rediscovered (today in the funeral hall of the cemetery on Schnieglinger Straße). This first cemetery was probably destroyed during the terrible persecution in 1298.

In Nuremberg, the Orthodox Jewish association Adas Israel ("Adaß Yisroel", "Israelite Religious Society") existed in the 19th/20th century (from 1874 to 1943) under the umbrella of the liberal main congregation.
  

The synagogue choir was under the direction of its conductor Karl Sturm.

The Jewish elementary and vocational school was established in the former Georg Levy toy factory and opened in 1934. After the destruction of the synagogues, services were held in the school gym.