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SchUM cities
The SchUM cities are Speyer, Worms and Mainz, whose Jewish communities formed a federation in the Middle Ages and were leading centres of Ashkenazi learning. The name comes from the initial Hebrew letters of the cities' names. Their synagogues, ritual baths and cemeteries, among them the Holy Sand in Worms, were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2021.
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