Language:
French
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Chemins de l'exil, havres de paix
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2010) 13-30
Keywords:
Jews Persecutions To 1500
;
History
;
Jews Persecutions 16th century
;
History
;
Antisemitism History
;
Jews Expulsion
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Crypto-Jews
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Jews
;
Jews History 16th century
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Languedoc (France)
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Provence (France)
Abstract:
Discusses the expulsions and exile of the Jews of Languedoc and Provence in the 14th-16th centuries in the light of contemporary Jewish sources. The expulsion from France in 1306, and the Jews' temporary return between 1315-22, is reflected in letters and notes written by some Jews from Languedoc. Jewish writers in Provence at the end of the 15th century expressed forebodings of the expulsions which took place in 1500-01. After deadly riots in Arles in 1484, and a worsening situation for all the Jews in the region, many Jews of Marseille left for Sardinia. Discusses the successful settlement in exile of a Jew from Aix-en-Provence, Bonet de Latte, in Rome in the 1490s. Following the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, several hundred of them sought refuge in Marseille, where they converted. In 1492-93 Jews from Rousillon, who had also been affected by the Spanish expulsions, arrived in Provence. After the expulsion from Provence in 1501 there was a large migration of Jews Many sought shelter in the Comtat Venaissin, Avignon, and Italy, but some travelled as far as Saloniki, Constantinople, and Smyrna. Some also made their way to the Land of Israel. Notes that compared to the large number of Spanish-Portuguese exiles, numbering ca. 30,000 families, the Jewish exile from southern France encompassed only ca. 1,000 individuals. The same amount of Jews converted and remained in France.
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