Region: France (Gascogne/Lot-et-Garonne)
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Agen, a city of Gascony, had a medieval Jewish community attested from the 12th–14th centuries, documented both by rabbinical responsa and by local and royal archives. It was among the communities of southwestern France affected by the expulsion of 1306 and subsequently by that of 1394.
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The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Agen give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Sources & resources
- Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
- jewishencyclopedia.com ↗
Notable figures of this place
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