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18th- and 19th-century Jewish communal registers (pinkasim in Hebrew) obtained by special agreement with the Russian State Library.

The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. See the "About" tab for details.

Details of four yizkor books and one communal history featured in Project Zikaron. See the "About" tab for details.

Documents associated with Rabbi Shimen Eisenberg, whose 2nd volume of memoirs was transcribed for Project Zikaron. See the "About" tab for details.

The manuscript of volume three of Avraham Shlomo Melamed's memoirs, which is included in Project Zikaron. See the "About" tab for details.

Three photographs of European Jews taken in the early 1910s. See the "About" tab for details.

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Speyer (Shpira), Germany (12)

49°19' N,8°26' E

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- Hockenheim, Germany 5 miles / 8 km
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- Ketsch, Germany 6 miles / 10 km
- Philippsburg, Germany 6 miles / 10 km
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- Germersheim, Germany 8 miles / 13 km
- Gommersheim, Germany 8 miles / 13 km
- Schwetzingen, Germany 8 miles / 13 km
- Mutterstadt, Germany 9 miles / 14 km
- Hassloch, Germany 9 miles / 14 km
- Rheingonheim (Rheingonnheim), Germany 9 miles / 14 km
- Assenheim, Germany 10 miles / 16 km
- Walldorf 1, Germany 10 miles / 16 km
- Sandhausen, Germany 10 miles / 16 km
- Dettenheim, Germany 10 miles / 16 km
- Liedolsheim (part of Dettenheim), Germany 10 miles / 16 km
- Graben-Neudorf (Graben, Neudorf), Germany 11 miles / 18 km
- Leimen, Germany 11 miles / 18 km
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- Mannheim, Germany 12 miles / 19 km
- Seckenheim, Germany 12 miles / 19 km
- Edingen-Neckarhausen (Edingen), Germany 12 miles / 19 km
- Weiskirchen, Germany 12 miles / 19 km
- Mingolsheim (Bad Mingolsheim) (part of Bad Schonborn), Germany 12 miles / 19 km
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- Nussloch, Germany 12 miles / 19 km
- Wiesloch, Germany 12 miles / 19 km
- Malsch 2 (Malsch bei Wiesloch), Germany 12 miles / 19 km
- Venningen, Germany 12 miles / 19 km
- Feudenheim, Germany 12 miles / 19 km
- Rulzheim (Ruelzheim), Germany 12 miles / 19 km
- Mussbach an der Weinstrasse (Mussbach), Germany 12 miles / 19 km
- Bad Schonborn (Bad Schoenborn), Germany 13 miles / 21 km
- Langenbrucken (Bad Langenbruecken), Germany 13 miles / 21 km
- Rohrbach 1 (Rohrbach bei Heidelberg), Germany 13 miles / 21 km
- Ilvesheim, Germany 13 miles / 21 km
- Leimersheim, Germany 13 miles / 21 km
- Essingen 1, Germany 13 miles / 21 km
- Forst 2, Germany 13 miles / 21 km
- Baiertal, Germany 14 miles / 23 km
- Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Neustadt an der Haardt, Neustadt), Germany 14 miles / 23 km
- Edenkoben, Germany 14 miles / 23 km
- Ladenburg, Germany 14 miles / 23 km
- Heidelberg 1, Germany 14 miles / 23 km
- Edesheim, Germany 14 miles / 23 km
- Dossenheim, Germany 14 miles / 23 km
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- Lambsheim, Germany 15 miles / 24 km
- Tairnbach, Germany 15 miles / 24 km
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- Schriesheim, Germany 16 miles / 26 km
- Bad Durkheim (Durkheim), Germany 16 miles / 26 km
- Bochingen (Boechingen), Germany 16 miles / 26 km
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- Sandhofen (part of Mannheim), Germany 16 miles / 26 km
- Stutensee, Germany 16 miles / 26 km
- Landau in der Pfalz (Landau), Germany 16 miles / 26 km
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- Eschelbach 1, Germany 16 miles / 26 km
- Leutershausen an der Bergstrasse (Leuterhausen) (part of Hirschberg an der Bergstrasse), Germany 16 miles / 26 km
- Staffort (part of Stutensee), Germany 17 miles / 27 km
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- Dirmstein, Germany 19 miles / 31 km
- Weinheim, Germany 19 miles / 31 km
- Lampertheim, Germany 20 miles / 32 km
- Lobenfeld, Germany 20 miles / 32 km
- Menzingen (part of Kraichtal), Germany 20 miles / 32 km
- Gondelsheim, Germany 20 miles / 32 km
- Ingenheim 1, Germany 20 miles / 32 km
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- Johlingen (Joehlingen) (part of Walzbachtal), Germany 20 miles / 32 km
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- Heuchelheim, Germany 21 miles / 34 km
- Sinsheim, Germany 21 miles / 34 km
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- Weiler 2 (Weiler bei Sinsheim), Germany 21 miles / 34 km
- Hagenbach 1, Germany 22 miles / 35 km
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- Gernsheim, Germany 30 miles / 48 km
- Hochhausen 1, Germany 30 miles / 48 km
- Neckarelz, Germany 30 miles / 48 km
- Reichenbach 1, Germany 30 miles / 48 km
- Reichenbach 2, Germany 30 miles / 48 km
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- Guglingen (Gueglingen), Germany 31 miles / 50 km
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- Winnweiler, Germany 31 miles / 50 km
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- Brackenheim, Germany 33 miles / 53 km
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- Kuppenheim, Germany 34 miles / 55 km
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- Frankenbach, Germany 35 miles / 56 km
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Die Judenverfolgungen in Speyer, Worms und Mainz im Jahre 1096 während des ersten Kreuzzuges (1877) ( Communal Histories )
Mannheimer, Moses
Das Martyrologium des Nurnberger Memorbuches (1898) ( Communal Histories )
Salfeld, Siegmund
See Note.
Die Judengemeinden zu Mainz, Speyer und Worms von 1349-1438 (1904) ( Communal Histories )
Rotschild, Leopold
"Mazkir neshamot" (1923-1924) ( Cemeteries )
מזכיר נשמות
Duschinsky, Jacob Koppel
Mittelalterliche Synagogen ([1927]) ( Communal Histories )
Krautheimer, Richard
Gedenkbücher (Memorbücher) von Offenbach a. Main und anderen deutschen Gemeinden (1927) ( Communal Histories )
מזכיר נשמות דק"ק אפפענבאך ע"נ מיין ועוד קהלות אחרות במדונת אשכנז
Tänzer, Aron
Die jüdischen Gefallenen des deutschen Heeres, der deutschen Marine und der deutschen Schutztruppen 1914 - 1918: ein Gedenkbuch [The Jewish Fallen of the German Army, Navy and Protection Forces: A Memorial Book: Part 3] (1932) ( Communal Histories )
See Note.
Germania Judaica: von der ältesten Zeiten bis 1238 (1934) ( Communal Histories )
Elbogen, I. and A. Freimann
A World Passed By: Scenes and Memories of Jewish Civilization in Europe and North Africa (1938) ( Communal Histories )
Lowenthal, Marvin
Universal Jewish Encyclopedia: Vol. 9: Prosbul to Speyer (1943) ( Communal Histories )
Landman, Isaac (ed.)
See Note.
In labirintn fun tkufes (1955) ( Communal Histories )
אין לאבירינטן פון תקופות
Bernstein, Mordechai Wolf
Nisht derbrente shaytn (1956) ( Communal Histories )
נישט דערברענטע שייטן
Bernstein, Mordechai Wolf

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