Every day we talk about the names of the streets of Vienna, the squares and their origin. Today, rue Juiverie.
We must always be wary of obvious obvious facts! How many times have we heard scholars explain to tourists that Rue Juiverie was the center of a Jewish ghetto. However, it is not. Despite appearances, the rue Juiverie, which links the cours Romestang to the rue Boson, has no connection with Viennese Judaism. The appellation, dating from the XVIIIe century, is due to the proximity of a house of the Order of the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, located rue du Rhône, at the time rue de Jerusalem. The Israelites rather lived in the “Bourg des Hebrews”, near Saint-André-le-Bas, but it was not strictly speaking a ghetto, since this district was also inhabited by Christians.
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