The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321 CE, [2][3] and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages (circa 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish community. The community survived under Charlemagne, but suffered during the Crusades.

While a small number of Jews preferred to settle in Communist East Germany, the vast majority chose to live in the Western part of the country. In the shadow of the Holocaust, Jewish life on German soil did not appear self-evident.

From the Jewish Museum in Berlin to Europe's oldest Jewish cemetery in Worms, take a look at Germany's historic Jewish attractions. Scattered throughout Europe, planted in city streets and sidewalks, commemorative brass plaques eternalize the lives that were lost in the Holocaust.

Today, 118,000 Jews live in Germany, making it the eighth largest Jewish community in the world. Evidence of Jews in the area now known as Germany dates back to the early 4th century; in the 1930s, a Jewish graveyard from that era was found in the city of Cologne.

Many Jews in Germany saw World War I as an opportunity to resolve the tension between their strong identification with German-speaking culture and its endemic antisemitism. Patriotic German and Austrian Jews eagerly signed up to fight for what they saw as their fatherlands, driven both by conviction and the hope that war service would put to rest

The Jews of Germany: A Look at the Past, Present and Future of German Jewry Former President of the Central Council for Jews in Germany and Holocaust Survivor, Dr. Charlotte Knobloch, describes the current state of the German Jewish community, its past and where it …

2021年5月10日 · Kosher food, Jewish holidays and theater mark a yearlong celebration of the diversity of Jewish culture in Germany dating back to the 4th century.