sentences:  Since there were formerly many Jews living in the village, Judaism earned itself some importance.In the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken before the Thirty Years' War, Jews stood under strict surveillance.They were allowed to “…lend usuriously neither a townsman nor a subject something, whether by pledge, or on the strength of jewels or clothes, or chattels or real property, without the authorities’ foreknowledge and approval.” They were once even forbidden the right to represent themselves in court.