From at least the 10th century CE until the 15th, the Rhineland city of Mainz was one of the major Jewish centers of northern Europe. Much earlier—in the 1st century BCE—three Roman soldiers from modern-day Syria or the Golan Heights were buried there, and their gravestones remain. Henry Abramson explains why scholars have concluded that these soldiers were Jews, and how they got there. (Video, 20 minutes.)
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