La communauté juive de Tarascon au XVe siècle

A rich and diversified documentation — land registers, communal deliberations, notary registers — enable to deepen the study of the Tarascón Jewish community in the xvth century. Living in very dense district, with limits defined by local authorities, the Tarascón Jews manage their community, their synagogue and their cemeteries with a large autonomy. They have their own administration, their taxes and their alms. Rather prosperous all along the xvth century, the Tarascón Jewish community is one of the most important ones in Provence. We can find as well physicians, surgeons, brokers as tailors and masons. Thanks to land registers, one can evaluate their fortune and their heritage. Nonetheless, the community is strongly indebted which reinforces internal constraints linked with the flow of goods and people. Nevertheless the Tarascón Jews demonstrate a very great capacity of adaptation towards local coercive rules. But, despite a few example of common life, relationships between Christians and Jews deteriorate all along the century. Such a situation leads to conversion of plenty of Jews to Christianity and to their final expulsion from Tarascón by royal order in 1496

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