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Meet the Metz: The Jews of Metz

ByJewish History Soundbites - Yehuda Geberer November 20, 2024November 20, 2024

Metz, France was host to one of the most prominent Jewish communities in the world at one point in history. An ancient Jewish community, it experienced a flourishing during medieval times before the Jews were expelled in 1365. Jewish settlement was again permitted in the mid-16th century and from 1648 following the Peace of Westphalia until the French Revolution in 1789, Metz experienced a golden age for its Jewish community. As one of the wealthiest Jewish communities in the world during this time, it attracted prestigious rabbinical talent with some of the greatest rabbis of the 18th century having served at its helm, including the Pnei Yehoshua, Rav Yonasan Eybuschitz, the Shaagas Aryeh and many others. It also funded a large yeshiva, and the town itself enjoyed demographic and economic growth. Following the French Revolution, the Metz community continued to thrive, but not as a center that it once was. Although much of the Metz Jewish community was decimated during the Holocaust, it was rebuilt and the Metz Jewish community continues to flourish until this very day.

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Jewish History Soundbites - Yehuda Geberer

Yehuda Geberer
is a researcher of Jewish History and a popular tour guide of Jewish Historical sites in Europe. He spends much of his time conducting group and private tours around Europe as well as Israel, for families, groups and institutions from a variety of background and ages. Tours to Europe and Israel focus on the story of the Jewish People in the modern era and this remains the primary focus of his research.

In addition to guided trips to Europe, he is a licensed tour guide at the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem, where he also conducts interviews of survivors. In addition to his duties at the vaunted Holocaust museum, he has lectured on a wide array of topics of Jewish historical interest at numerous Shuls, Yeshivas as well as taught classes at the Ner LeElef Rabbinic Training Program in Jerusalem.

He is also the host of Jewish History Soundbites, a popular podcast profiling personalities and episodes from our glorious past. Since its inception in May 2019, the large community of listeners who regularly tune in to Jewish History Soundbites has grown significantly, constituting a diverse and educated audience from many countries around the world.

Yehuda writes a regular history column for Mishpacha Magazine entitled 'For the Record'".

Yehuda studied for many years at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He has a Business degree from Ono Academic College and is studying for a degree in Jewish History at Hebrew University.

He lives in Bet Shemesh with his wife and three children.