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| | JewishEncyclopedia.com - HEILBRONN: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Town of Württemberg in the district of the Neckar. |
 | | The scholars of Heilbronn during the Middle Ages included R. Johanan, son of R. Eliakim; the punctator Abraham, and the teacher Isaac, all of whom were murdered in 1298; the Talmudist Salomon Spira flourished there in the second half of the fifteenth century. |
 | | Since 1864 Heilbronn has replaced Lehrensteinsfeld as the seat of the district rabbinate, which now includes the communities of Affaltrach-Eschenau, Bonfeld, Kochendorf, Neckarsulm, Lehrensteinsfeld, Weinsberg, Massenbach with Hausen, Oedheim, Oehringen, Sontheim, Horkheim, and Thalheim. |
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