"THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF Kentucky July 13, 2007 A Quick Glance at Unique Jewish Communities Along the Ohio Gallipolis, OH – Founded in 1790 as “the city of the Gauls” by a small group of refugees from the French Revolution, the Jews in this small community hailed from the Alsace region of France. The community is renowned for its high proportion of Alsatian landsmen accustomed to small village life in Europe, though they only numbered five percent of the total Jewish population at that time. The town was also home to the Moch family, one of the wealthiest Jewish families in eighteenth-century Alsace." Gloria Ishida =============== Domaine de Curé Luxury Gîtes (vacation apartments) in centuries old farmhouse near Carcassonne, France Jean-Noël Ishida and Agathe Moréchand-Ishida http://www.domaine-cure.com/