Jewish Community

A first Jewish community or settlement of Jews in Kempten can be documented for the 14th century. In 1875 the Kempten community merged with the one from Memmingen at the insistence of the Swabian government. This wish on the part of the government had been expressed since 1872.[1] After the persecution of Jews during the National Socialist era, a small number of Jews founded a new Jewish community, which, however, became extinct again shortly thereafter.

The Jewish community Kirchschönbach was an Israelite religious community in today's Prichsenstadt district Kirchschönbach in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen. The community existed from the 16th century until the year 1911.

A Jewish community in Lisberg, a municipality in the district of Bamberg in northern Bavaria, has existed since the beginning of the 18th century at the latest.

The Jewish community in Maßbach, a community in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen (Bavaria), came into being after the Thirty Years' War and was destroyed in 1942 by the persecution of Jews during the National Socialist era.

The Jewish community of Memmingen in the Upper Swabian town of Memmingen in Bavaria was first documented in 1348. The community became extinct in the course of the persecution of Jews during the National Socialist era.

The Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria (IKG) is with about 9500 members the second largest Jewish community in Germany in the legal form of a corporation under public law. Like the communities of Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin, it forms an independent state association within the Central Council of Jews in Germany and is one of the two state associations in Bavaria.

The history of the Jews in Berlin begins shortly after the city was founded. Until the beginning of modern times, Jews were expelled from Berlin and resettled several times. Since 1671 there has been a permanent Jewish population in Berlin, which grew in the 19th and early 20th centuries to 173,000 people in 1925. The Jewish population played an important and formative role in Berlin during this period.

The origin of the Jewish community in Baiertal, a district of the city of Wiesloch in the Rhine-Neckar district (Baden-Württemberg), dates back to the 18th century. The Jewish community existed until 1937.

The Jewish community in Dühren, a district of the city of Sinsheim in the Rhine-Neckar district (Baden-Württemberg), was established in the 17th century and existed until the second half of the 19th century.

A Jewish community in Eberbach in the Rhine-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg formed in the 19th century, reached its highest membership in 1900 with 138 members, but dwindled due to migration to large cities after World War I and finally became extinct in the course of the persecution of Jews during the National Socialist era. In the late 19th century, a converted residential building served as a synagogue, and in 1913 the community built itself a new synagogue, which was destroyed in the Reichspogromnacht of 1938.