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Encyclopaedia Judaica

Jews in Halle

Jewish settlement and expulsions - Black Death expulsion and return - community life with synagogue, ritual bath, cemetery, and Hebrew printing - Hebrew Bible - numbers - Holocaust - post-war times

Encyclopaedia Judaica (1971): Halle, vol. 7, col. 1196. Copperplate engraving from a title page of a Hebrew-Latin Mishnah, illustrating the tractate "Hallah", showing women kneading dough and giving the dough-offering (hallah) to the kohanim [[priestly families]]. Amsterdam, 1700-1704. Jerusalem, J.N.U.L.

from: Halle; In: Encyclopaedia Judaica (1971), vol. 7

presented by Michael Palomino (2008)

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<HALLE, city in E. Germany.

Although Jews may well have been present in Halle at the end of the 11th century, the first definite information on their settlement in the city comes from the second half of the 12th century. Then under the protection of the archbishop of Magdeburg, they were hated by the burghers: in 1206 their houses were burnt or looted - some were killed and the rest expelled from the city.

However, in the mid-13th century there were again Jews in Halle, living in a special quarter, and mainly engaged in money lending. In 1261, most of their property was confiscated by the archbishop, serving as a cause for a two-year war between the archbishop and the burghers.

During persecutions accompanying the *Black Death (1350) the community was destroyed, but in the 14th and 15th centuries Jews returned once more to Halle. The renewed community existed until 1493, when the expulsion of the Jews was decree. It possessed both a synagogue and a mikveh [[ritual bath]], and a cemetery existed long before 1350.

Toward the end of the 17th century the elector of Brandenburg allowed several Jews to settle in Halle, to the dismay of the burghers. In 1693 a Jewish cemetery was officially designated and a synagogue dedicated in 1700. The government recognized the community in 1704. About 1708 a Hebrew printing press was set up in Halle by J.H. Michaelis, for whom the wandering proselyte printer Moses b. Abraham and his son Israel (of Amsterdam) printed a Hebrew Bible (1720). With the help of generous patrons, in 1709 Moses himself began to print some Talmud tractates.

The number of Jews in Halle increased form 12 families in 1700 to 50 in the middle of the 18th century. They were emancipated in 1808 and the community, numbering 150 persons, was given a constitution. In 1840 there were 167 members of the community, 443 in 1864, 660 in 1900, 1,902 in 1920, and 1,100 in 1933 (0.5% of the total population).

On Nov. 10, 1938 the synagogue and communal center were (col. 1196)

demolished. Two hundred men were arrested and sent to *Buchenwald; three of them lost their lives. In 1939 only 287 Jews remained in Halle and on Jul 1, 1944, 92 were still living there.

The community was renewed after World War II and numbered 50 in 1966 (.02% of the population).

Bibliography
--Germ Jud, 1 (1963), 124-30, 508-12; 2 (1968), 319-22
-- S. Neufeld: Die Halleschen Juden im Mittelalter (1915)
-- S. Schultze-Gallera: Die Juden zu Halle im Mittelalter... (1922)
-- G. Kisch, in: Sachsen und Anhalt. Jahrbuch der historischen Kommission fuer die Provinz Sachsen und fuer Anhalt; 4 (1928), 132-66; 5 (1929), 332-46; 6 (1930), 306-36
-- idem, in: ZGJD, 2 (1930), 166-8
-- H.D. Friedberg: Toledot ha-Defus ha-Ivri ... (1937), 74-75
-- T. Tykocinski, in: MGWJ, 57 (1908), 32-43
-- S. Stern: Der preussische Staat und die Juden, 1 (1962), index; 2 (1962), no. 513-67

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