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Twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were set on fire in the streets of Paris The Disputation of Paris ( Hebrew : משפט פריז , romanized : Mishpat Pariz ; French : disputation de Paris ), also known as the Trial of the Talmud (French: procès du Talmud ), took place in 1240 at the court of King Louis IX of France.
The Yeshiva of the Students of Paris (or the Hebrew Center for Study and Meditation) is a seminary of rabbinical studies (a yeshiva) that was founded in 1987 by the Rabbi Gerard Zyzek. His objective was the learning of the Jewish traditions and the Babylonian Talmud .
Solomon ben Meir, 12th century French rabbi; Elijah of Paris, 12th-century French rabbi; Judah ben Nathan, 12th century bible commentator, son-in-law of Rashi, also known as Rivan; Eliezer ben Nathan, (1090–1170) 12th-century poet and pietist; Haim ben Hananel HaCohen (Tosafist) Rabbenu Gershom, (c.960–c.1040) 11th-century German Talmudist ...
Yechiel ben Joseph of Paris or Jehiel of Paris, called Sire Vives in French (Judeo-French: שיר ויויש ) and Vivus Meldensis ("Vives of Meaux") in Latin, [2] was a major Talmudic scholar and Tosafist from northern France, father-in-law of Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil.
The city of Paris offered a plot of land in the business district, and de Rothschild funded construction of the synagogue. [ 5 ] The building was designed by Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe (architect of the Versailles Synagogue and the Enghien-les-Bains commune) in the Romanesque Revival style, embellished with Byzantine Revival frills. [ 5 ]
Kehilat Gesher (transliterated from Hebrew as "Community of bridges") is a Liberal Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Rue Léon Cogniet, in the XVIIe arrondissement of Paris, France. The synagogue was founded in 1993 by Jewish and Franco-American family, led by Tom Cohen, a rabbi from Portland, Oregon, in the United States.
Nicholas Donin (French: Nicolas Donin) of La Rochelle, [1] a Jewish convert to Christianity in early thirteenth-century Paris, is known for his role in the 1240 Disputation of Paris, which resulted in a decree for the public burning of all available manuscripts of the Talmud. [2]
Levy was succeeded by Rabbi Andre Chalom Zaoui (1916-2009) in 1946. [9] In 1970, Rabbi Daniel Farhi (1941-2021) was appointed the new senior rabbi and left ULIF in 1977 to create the second Reform synagogue of Paris, Mouvement Juif Liberal de France. [10] Rabbi Michael Williams assumed the spiritual leadership of the community in 1977. [11]