Bacourt Jewish Community

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A Jewish community in Bacourt in the Moselle department in the French region of Lorraine was in the 19th century.

history

In the 19th century there was a Jewish community in Bacourt that owned a synagogue and a ritual bath ( mikveh ). Only traces of the ritual bath can be found in a private garden. The Jewish community belonged to the Consistoire Nancy until 1871 and then to the Consistoire Metz .

In 1939 there was only one Jewish couple living in Bacourt who were deported and murdered by the German occupiers . They are commemorated on a plaque commemorating those who died in the community during World War II .

Ministres officiants

  • 1829 to 1831: Michel Salomon
  • 1888 to 1899: Léopold Marx
  • 1901 to after 1905: Horvilleur

literature

  • Jean-Philippe Chaumont, Monique Lévy (eds.): Dictionnaire biographique des rabbins et autres ministres du culte israélite. France et Algérie, du Grand Sanhédrin (1807) à la loi de Séparation (1905) . Berg International Éditeurs, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-911289-97-2 .
  • Henry Schumann: Mémoire des communautés juives de Moselle . Éditions Serpenoise, Metz 1999, ISBN 2-87692-430-7 .