Mandel

Residential - Mandel, Rhineland-Palatinate

First Jewish presence: unknown; peak Jewish pop.: 75 in latter half of the 19th century (12% of the total population); Jewish population in 1933: 23

We do not know when Jews first settled in Mandel, but records do tell us that 25 Jews lived there in 1808. In 1858, the Jewish population of Mandel and of the neighboring communities was 107. The community consecrated a cemetery in 1820, and we also know that a Jewish school was located on what used to be Rathausstrasse. Mandel’s tiny synagogue, located between two commercial buildings, is believed to have been founded in 1825. On Pogrom Night, rioters vandalized the synagogue and desecrated the cemetery; the synagogue building was later razed. Most Mandel Jews moved to other towns in Germany and perished in the Shoah. In all, 44 local Jews were deported.

Fred Gottlieb

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ germansynagogues.bh.org.il

Notes

Sources: The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Shmuel Spector [Ed.], [publisher] Yad Vashem and the New York University Press, 2001., Lexikon der jüdischen Gemeinde in Deutschen Sprachraum, Klaus Dieter-Alicke, [publisher] Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008.

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Date Added	May 05, 2020
Category	Residential
Country	DE
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
City	Mandel
Exhibits	Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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Mandel

First Jewish presence: unknown; peak Jewish pop.: 75 in latter half of the 19th century (12% of the total population); Jewish population in 1933: 23

Fred Gottlieb

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ germansynagogues.bh.org.il

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