'''Pfersee''' is a part of the city of Augsburg, Bavaria with some 25.000 inhabitants on the western shore of river Wertach. In 1911 Pfersee was incorporated to Augsburg.
thumb|Hebrew grave marker at Jewish cemetery Pfersee in Augsburg, GermanyThe name Pfersee probably derives from “fert” (Furt), meaning a ford (crossing).
Pfersee is first mentioned in 8th century, but there also are important archeological findings such as a brazen horse-head which was part of an equestrian statue, probably dedicated to emperor Hadrian.
From 1560 until 1875 in Pfersee there was a noted Jewish community with a number of renowned chairmen, rabbis and scholars, mainly from the Ulmo (Ginsburg) family, who until the beginning of the 19th century was in possession of the so-called “Pfersee manuscript”, the oldest almost complete surviving handwritten edition of the Babylonian Talmud, dated from 14th century, which now is at the Bavarian State Library in Munich.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12082-pfersee | title=PFERSEE | publisher=JewishEncyclopedia.com | accessdate=December 7, 2011 | author=Gotthard Deutsch, Moses Löb Bamberger}}</ref> in 1627 the Jewish community of Pfersee along with the neighboring Jewish communities of Steppach and Kriegshaber established a common Jewish cemetery, today usually attributed to Kriegshaber, which became part of Augsburg in 1916 as well.
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==External links== * https://web.archive.org/web/20110218044050/http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Babylonischer-Talmud.2519.0.html * http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/images/Images%20302/CEM-KRI-BURIAL-REGISTER-ALPHABETICAL.pdf * http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/images/Images%20302/CEM-KRI-BURIAL-REGISTER-SPATIAL.pdf
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Category:Augsburg
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