Rosenwiller
ROSENWILLER
ROSENWILLER (Rosenweiler ), town in Alsace in the department of Bas-Rhin, E. France. There is evidence of Jews in Rosenwiller from the middle of the 16th century. Although an expulsion order was issued by the local lord in 1563, it does not seem to have been effectively carried out, but the number of Jews there remained small. The Rosenwiller community was important because its Jewish cemetery, dating from at least 1621, served some 20 Jewish communities in the area. In the second half of the 18th century, almost 100 burials a year took place there.
bibliography:
M. Ginsburger, in: Souvenir et science, 1 (1930), 24–51.
[Bernhard Blumenkranz]
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