La cosmographie universelle de tout le monde, volume 1
Author Sebastian Münster German
Editor François de Belleforest French
Publisher Nicolas Chesneau French
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By 1548, when Sebastian Münster first published a bird’s-eye view of Colmar, there was no surviving sign of Jewish life—no synagogue, school, or mikveh—for the famous cartographer and scholar of Hebrew to record. His woodcut features eight churches, all nestled within the city walls. The medieval Jewish presence has disappeared from this otherwise quaint scene worthy of a fairytale.
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