Les juifs de marseille au xive siecle
Juliette Sibon - Collection Gallia judaica
Résumé
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The significant Jewish minority in 14the century Marseilles, a great trading and military port of Angevine Provence, is represented in Latin sources by an extended group of notables. The urban Jewish elite in Marseilles - the only ones clearly documented - constituted about a dozen families. Among them, certain figures stand out, such as the famous Bondavin de Draguignan who died in 1361, Salomon de Bédarrides and his brother-in-law Cregut Profach in the second part of the century. The intellectual influence of the Jewish community in the city is unquestionable. They produced dozens of doctors, famous Talmudists such as Aaron de Camera, then Bonjuson Bondavin, close to Queen Marie and King Martin I of Aragon at the end of the century. These elites, who practiced lending, artisanal manufacture and trade (of coral in particular), as well as land and real estate, maintained links with their fellow Jews of 'Proventsa' and the western Mediterranean - Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Sardinia. Their trade stretched as far as the Levant, even beyond: the coral rosaries of Marseilles were sought after in China and India. This book, fruit of the author's thesis, analyses the endurance of the Jewish community in Marseilles, whose elites, even after the Black Plague of 1348, showed great confidence in their present and their future. Of course, we observe some instances of hostility, symptomatic of the negative conception of Judaism in the Christian West. But in spite of being at a legal disadvantage because of their condition as infidels, the Jewish citizens of Marseilles were an integral part of the 'civitas'. Moreover, Jewish notables found a means of contact with the urban Christian patricians in the practice of lending with interest. The 'amicitia', the accumulation of heritage, choice of name and its transmission are so many indications of elitism on the one hand, and mimicry of urban Christian nobility on the other. The rabbis' efforts to maintain the ritual barrier between Jews and Christians reveals the behaviour of the Jewish elite, sufficiently self-assured not to fear any rapprochement with the social majority and to find salvation not in withdrawal, but in exchange and mobility.
L'auteur - Juliette Sibon
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PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Juliette Sibon |
Collection | Gallia judaica |
Parution | 20/10/2011 |
Nb. de pages | 585 |
Format | 14.7 x 23.6 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 746g |
EAN13 | 9782204095068 |
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