Region: France (Quercy/Lot)
Intersection register · custodian, not owner
The capital of Quercy, Cahors was synonymous in the Middle Ages with Christian and Jewish financial activity: the term "cahorsin" designated moneylenders throughout medieval Europe. Jewish families are documented there before the expulsion of 1306 in commerce, moneylending, and medicine.
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This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Cahors give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Sources & resources
- Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
Notable figures of this place
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