sentences:  The fact is that at the time, Jews were sometimes tolerated in the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, though they lay under considerably tighter controls than in neighbouring electoral states.It could thus be that even then, Jews were settling right at the border so that they could pursue business – more or less unlawfully – in Zweibrücken territory.In the latter half of the 18th century, only Jews lived in the non-Zweibrücken part of the village, in the "Judengasse" (“Jews’ Lane”).