ShUM cities

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The ShUM cities are a historic trio of medieval Jewish communities along the Rhine—Speyer, Worms, and Mainz—renowned as a major center of Ashkenazi Jewish learning and culture.

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Label Occurrences
ShUM cities canonical 1
ShUM communities 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf group of cities
medieval Jewish communities
country Holy Roman Empire
ethnicGroup Ashkenazi Jews NERFINISHED
hasNotableInstitutionType rabbinical court
yeshiva
hasNotableRabbi Eleazar of Worms NERFINISHED
Judah he-Hasid of Regensburg NERFINISHED
Rabbeinu Gershom ben Judah NERFINISHED
Rashi NERFINISHED
hasPart Mainz NERFINISHED
Speyer NERFINISHED
Worms NERFINISHED
hasSignificantPlace Jewish cemetery of Mainz NERFINISHED
Jewish cemetery of Worms NERFINISHED
Jewish courtyard of Speyer NERFINISHED
medieval synagogues
mikvaot
HebrewName ערי שו"ם
heritageDesignation UNESCO World Heritage Site
heritageDesignationAppliesTo Mainz NERFINISHED
Speyer NERFINISHED
Worms NERFINISHED
heritageDesignationBy UNESCO NERFINISHED
heritageDesignationDate 2021
historicalPeriod Middle Ages NERFINISHED
historicalRegion Ashkenaz NERFINISHED
influenced Ashkenazi halakha NERFINISHED
Ashkenazi liturgy
Jewish communal law in Europe
language Hebrew
Judeo-German
legalStatus autonomous Jewish communities (kehilla)
locatedIn Rhine River region NERFINISHED
locatedInPresentDay Germany NERFINISHED
nameDerivedFrom initial Hebrew letters of Speyer, Worms, Mainz
notableFor Ashkenazi Jewish learning
Jewish communal organization
Talmudic scholarship
halakhic rulings
medieval Jewish culture
religion Judaism
sufferedEvent later medieval pogroms
persecutions during the First Crusade
timeOfGreatestFlourishing 11th century
12th century

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Speyer isPartOf ShUM cities
yeshivot of Worms partOf ShUM cities
this entity surface form: ShUM communities