There are four cities in the Languedoc region that have a particular interest for Jewish culture. The presence of a Jewish community in Provence and Languedoc dates back to the first century. An oil lamp with a menorah from this period was excavated in Orgon in 1967. During the middle-ages, this community enjoyed their proximity with the Spanish and Portuguese communities. This can explain ...
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L’isle sur la Sorgue
Regrettably, this town, which had one of Comtat Venaissin’s four carrieres, preserves no vestiges of its Jewish past -apart, that is, from the name Place de la Juiverie and the cemetery outside the town.
Plus d'infosPernes Les Fontaines
Pernes-les-Fontaines remained the capital of Comtat Venaissin until Pope John XXII bought back the rights over Carpentras from its bishop. Two elements reveals the Jewish presence in this town: the name Place de la Juiverie and the traditional identification of the large house standing in that square as the old “Jewish baths”.
Plus d'infosCarpentras
Carpentras had a Jewish population when it was yielded to the papacy by the king of France in 1274. In the fourteenth century, the Jewish quarter on rue Fournaque, near the town walls, was home to ninety families. In 1459 it was sacked by rioters and sixty people were killed. The community was forced to move to rue des Muses in the town center, which became rue des Juifs, a carriere closed ...
Plus d'infosProvence
The term Provintçia in the Hebrew sources corresponds roughly to Provence and Languedoc. In the history of France’s Jews, this region is notable for the outstanding figures and works that it produced in the Middle Ages and by the unbroken presence of Jews in Comtat Venaissin for 2000 years. A lamp dating from the first century C.E. found near the oppidum at Orgon and kept in the ...
Plus d'infosRhône-Alpes
Jews lived in Roman Lugdunum but disappeared from Lyon because of the expulsions. It was only under the reign of Louis XV that a community was re-created with immigrants from Comtat Venaissin and Alsace. The region is associated primarily with World War II and the French Resistance. The notorious war criminal Klaus Barbie, who was tried in 1986, was the head of the Lyon Gestapo.
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