Saint-Avold Jewish Community
A Jewish community in Saint-Avold in the Moselle department in the French region of Lorraine had since the beginning of the 17th century.
history
The Jewish community of Saint-Avold probably already had a synagogue before 1817 , because it was being rebuilt at that time. It was renovated in 1860 and rebuilt in 1935. This synagogue was so destroyed during the Second World War that after 1956 a new synagogue was built on the Place du Marché according to the plans of the architect Roger Zonca . The Jewish community has belonged to the Israelite consistorial district of Metz since 1808 .
graveyard
For a long time, the Jewish community buried its dead in the Jewish cemetery in Hellering and built its own Jewish cemetery in Saint-Avold around 1900 .
literature
- Henry Schumann: Mémoire des communautés juives de Moselle . Éditions Serpenoise, Metz 1999, ISBN 2-87692-430-7 .
Web links
- History of the Saint-Avold Jewish Community (French, accessed April 30, 2015)