Region: France (Languedoc/Tarn)
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A town in the Languedoc Tarn, Castres sheltered a medieval Jewish community documented in local archives from the 12th–14th centuries. Jews there were active in trade and financial activities before the Capetian expulsions.
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The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Castres give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Sources & resources
- Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
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