Yalkut Shimoni on Torahילקוט שמעוני על התורה
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Yalkut Shimoni
Yalkut Shimoni
1200 CE–1280 CE · RI · Frankfurt am Main
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Frankfurt am MainפרנקפורטGermany
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Frankfurt am Main in this era
Under the Holy Roman Empire, with the Staufen dynasty at its height until mid-century and then fragmented princely rule, Frankfurt was becoming a major trading hub on the Main River—a free imperial city of growing Christian merchant power. The Jewish community there was well-established and economically vital, though subject to the mounting pressures and violence that characterized German Jewry in the High Middle Ages: the Crusades had brought massacres in the 1190s, and blood libels and restrictions multiplied through the thirteenth century. Yet Frankfurt's Jews remained engaged in moneylending, trade, and scholarship; by the late 1200s the city was home to a significant yeshiva and scribal tradition. The Yalkut Shimoni, a massive midrashic compilation drawing on earlier rabbinic sources, reflects the intensive textual and interpretive work that continued in such communities even as their legal and physical security eroded—a scholar's monument built amid gathering storms.
About Frankfurt am Main
R. Samson Raphael Hirsch's lifelong rabbinate (1851-1888); a center of 19c. German Orthodoxy.
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Yalkut Shimoni on Nachילקוט שמעוני על נ״ך
Tiberias · 1250