Region: France (Bourgogne/Yonne)
Intersection register · custodian, not owner
The ancient capital of the ecclesiastical province of Sens, the town had a medieval Jewish community attested in capitulary sources as early as the eleventh century. The Jews of Sens were active in commerce and moneylending before the expulsion of 1182 and those that followed.
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The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Sens give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day
Sources & resources
- Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
- jewishencyclopedia.com ↗
Notable figures of this place
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