Ancient Diocese of Carpentras: Difference between revisions

 

===The Jews of Carpentras: the Carrière===

Already by the beginning of the sixth century, there were significant numbers of Jews in the Midi.<ref>A survey of the evidence is given by Loeb, pp. 36-38.</ref> The bishops, who met at Agde in 507, and those who met at Epaona in 517, considered it necessary to make canons concerning fraternization with Jews even more stringent. One of these was Bishop Julianus of Carpentras. It was already forbidden for clerics to dine with Jews, but the prohibition was also extended to laymen.<ref>{{cite book|author=Karl Joseph von Hefele|editor=William R. Clark|title=A History of the Councils of the Church, from the Original Documents. By the Right Rev. Charles Joseph Hefele ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LN5DAAAAYAAJ|volume=Volume IV|year=1895|publisher=T. & T. Clark|location=Edinburgh|pages=76, 82–83, 107, 111}}</ref> The earliest reference to a Jewish community in Carpentras is found in a set of community statutes, approved by several prominent rabbis in France, including the Rabbi of Carpentras, who may have been Jacob Tam. These belong to the first half of the twelfth century. At the beginning of the thirteenth century the Jews were expelled from Carpentras, but they returned in 1263.<ref>Bardinet (1880), pp. 7-9</ref> Apparently they were able to reach an accommodation with Bishop Raimundus de Barjols, who unfortunately died in February 1275.<ref>Loeb, pp. 37-38. S. Kahn, in: Adler & Singer (1907), ''Jewish Encyclopedia'', p. 589 column 1.</ref>