Herborn, Germany

HERBORN Hesse-Nassau, Germany. After the Black Death persecutions of 1348-49, a permanent community was not established until about 1680, when the Jews built a synagogue. Numbering 48 in 1871, the community maintained a school (1870-1933), was affiliated with the Bad Ems rabbinate, and grew to 124 in 1925. Its synagogue was destroyed on Kristallnacht (9-10 November 1938), and 46 of the 91 Jews left (mostly emigrating) by 1939; at least 22 were eventually deported.