Place · Central Europe
Paris
Ancient names: Lutetia
The French royal capital, where the trial of the Talmud was staged in 1242 and where a moneylender was accused of host desecration in 1290.
48.8544°N 2.3462°E · representative coordinate · Pleiades 109126 ↗
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In 1242 a trial of the Talmud was staged in Paris. The Inquisition, predictably, found the charges well founded, and twenty-four cartloads of Talmud manuscripts and other rabbinic works went up in flames in public.
In 1290 a Jewish moneylender in Paris was charged with desecrating the host, an episode marked by a chapel built on the spot and probably one trigger of the 1306 expulsion of Jews from France. Another charge, in 1370, brought about the virtual end of the Jewish community of medieval Belgium. The final Jew executed for the supposed 'crime' of desecrating the host died in the 1600s.
France was more tangled, since political authority was more fragmented. Philip IV's expulsion of the Jews in 1306 applied only to the royal lands of central France, around Paris, and later kings let some return, only to expel them again within a few years. The expulsion became final only in 1394, and even then some Jews lingered in the southeast until 1501, and the papal lands around Avignon never saw them permanently removed.
Community: Jews of Paris
In 1242 a trial of the Talmud was staged in Paris. The Inquisition, predictably, found the charges well founded, and twenty-four cartloads of Talmud manuscripts and other rabbinic works went up in flames in public.
In 1290 a Jewish moneylender in Paris was charged with desecrating the host, an episode marked by a chapel built on the spot and probably one trigger of the 1306 expulsion of Jews from France. Another charge, in 1370, brought about the virtual end of the Jewish community of medieval Belgium. The final Jew executed for the supposed 'crime' of desecrating the host died in the 1600s.
France was more tangled, since political authority was more fragmented. Philip IV's expulsion of the Jews in 1306 applied only to the royal lands of central France, around Paris, and later kings let some return, only to expel them again within a few years. The expulsion became final only in 1394, and even then some Jews lingered in the southeast until 1501, and the papal lands around Avignon never saw them permanently removed.
Community: The Paris Pletzl
Migration from Alsace helped form the Paris Jewish quarter called the Pletzl.
Community: North African Jews of Paris
In 1962 nearly every Jew in Algeria moved to France. A large share of the 220,000 North Africans who came were already French citizens. With over 500,000 Jews, more than half in Paris, France is home to the world's third-largest Jewish community.