History of the Jews in Switzerland in the city — more than in any other city in the world. Whereas the communities of Basel and Zürich are traditionally shaped by large Ashkenazi communities, Geneva also hosts an important Sephardic community. Its main synagogue, the Synagogue Hekhal Haness, is considered to be the most important Sephardic synagogue in the whole of Europe. A ring with a Menorah depiction found in Augusta Raurica (Kaiseraugst, Switzerland) in 2001 attests to Hebrew presence in Germania Superior. The Encyclopaedia Judaica mentioned a first documentation in 1214. In the Middle Ages, as in many places in Europe, they frequently suffered persecution, for
Low's Encyclopaedia Low's Encyclopaedia Low's Encyclopædia is an early American encyclopedia, titled "The New and Complete American Encyclopædia or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences". It was published in New York City, from 1805 to 1811. Consisting of seven volumes quarto, it is noteworthy among America's earliest encyclopedias for having been written in the United States, as opposed to being an American reprint of a British work, as were, for examples, "Dobson's Encyclopedia" (1789 to 1798), the Bradford printing (1806 to 1820) of "Rees's Cyclopædia" (1802 to 1820), Samuel A. Mitchell's American printing (1816) of the "British Encyclopaedia" (1809), or the Birch