Region: France (Touraine/Indre-et-Loire)
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The capital of Touraine, Tours was home to a medieval Jewish community attested from Carolingian sources as early as the 9th century. The Jews of Tours were merchants and moneylenders; the city was affected by the Capetian expulsions of 1182 and 1306.
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This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Tours 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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