Career (juivery)

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Carrière (of the Occitan will carriera which means street) is a term which indicated the street or the Jewish district where all the Jewish population of certain cities of the Comtat-Venaissin resided. If the Jews often preferred to gather in part of a city to be able to form the Minyan of 10 men necessary to the prayer and thus to be close to the synagog, they were also constrained to be limited to very exiguous districts by the Church which wanted to avoid the mixture of the Christian and Jewish populations.

Into the the Middle Ages, the Jewish community is well integrated into the population, but starting from the 4th council of Lateran, in 1215, of discriminatory measurements are established of which obligation to carry distinctive marks to prevent the mixed unions.

When they are driven out kingdom of France in 1394, much take refuge in Comtat-Venaissin which depends not on king de France but on the Pope. This one tolerates them with the help of many discriminations: prohibition to take part in corporations thus to exert the trades governed by those, to employ Christians, to have grounds or buildings, to take meals in common with Christians, etc… The ecclesiastical capacity did all to keep them away of their flocks Christian women

One can still admire of them the Synagog S of Carpentras and Cavaillon.

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