Passage: Before the Nazi era Franconia was as a region with significant Jewish communities, most of whom were Ashkenazi Jews. The first Jewish communities appeared in Franconia in the 12th and 13th centuries and thus later than, for example, in Regensburg. In the Middle Ages, Franconia was a stronghold of Torah studies. But Franconia also began to exclude the Jewish populations particularly early on. For example, there were two Jewish massacres - the Rintfleisch massacres of 1298 and the Armleder Uprising of 1336-1338 - and in the 15th and 16th centuries many cities exiled their Jewish populations, which is why many Jews settled in rural communities. Franconia also rose to early prominence in the discrimination of Jews during the Nazi era. One of the first casualties of the organized Nazi persecution of Jews took place on 21 March in Künzelsau and on 25/26 March 1933 in Creglingen, where police and SA troops under the leadership of Standartenführer Fritz Klein led a so-called "weapons search operations".Whilst, in 1818, about 65 per cent of Bavarian Jews lived in the Bavarian part of Franconia, today there are only Jewish communities in Bamberg, Bayreuth, Erlangen, Fürth, Hof, Nuremberg and Würzburg and in Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg.
How many 'weapons search operations' did the Nazi organize against the Jews? How many Jewish communities are in Franconia today? How many cities now have Jewish communities in Franconia? How many communities today are Jews living in? How many years did the Armleder Uprising go on for? How many years did the Armleder Uprising last? How many years did the Armleder Uprising take place? How many years was it between the first and second Jewish massacre? What was the name of the first Jewish massacres in Regensburg? What was the name of the second Jewish massacre in Regensburg? When did the persecution of Jews in Creglingen first take place? When was the second Jewish massacre in Regensburg? When were the Ashkenazi communities significant in Francnonia? Where did almost two thirds of the Bavarian Jews live in 1818? Where were Jewish communities first, Franconia or Regensburg? Where were Jews persecuted first, Künzelsau or Creglingen? Which Regensburg massacre came first? Which massacre occurred first? Which massacres happened first, the Rintfleisch massacres or the Armleder Uprising? Which occurred first, the Rintfleisch massacres or the Armleder Uprising? Which region inhabited Jews first, Franconia or Regensburg? Which was the first massacre to have happened to the Jews?