The Jewish cemetery of

L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (; or ) is a town and Communes of France, commune on the Sorgue river in Southeastern France. Politically, the commune is in the arrondissement of Avignon within the Departments of France, department of Vaucluse, in the Re ...

is one of the important Jewish sites of the Department of

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in Provence, France. Since 30 June 2008 it is listed as a historic monument.

Comtadines Jews

The Jewish community is present in

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since the Middle Ages. Several comtadines cities, like Bollene,

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, welcomed the Jewish population, effective in 1322, the date on which Pope

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expelled the Jews from the Comtat.

L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue Jews

Installed near the current place of Jewry, the community had several buildings around the synagogue. It was destroyed in 1856. The "Carrière" (from the Provençal "carriero", street) was established around an impasse, in an area of 2,500 m². Around 28 families lived in this place in 1682, 63 families in 1789.

Cemetery

It is initially near the Carrière but its movement was dictated by the expansion of the city. A new location was found south of the town, then increased in 1736 by the purchase of land adjacent Jean-Jacques Guérin, for 650

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. This site is the only own of the Jewish community of the city, listed on the inventory made in 1906, following the law of separation of church and state in 1905. If the property is communal usufruct is preserved until 1939, the last year of burial. Portal provides access to land 9460 m², enclosed by a fence. Currently, there are about forty graves in this cemetery, of those buried in the last century of use in pens of four families that remained: the Abram, Carcassonne, Cremieux, the Créange. Among the people buried in this cemetery is a former mayor of

, Abram Adolphe Michel (1834–1905), mayor from 1871 to 1874. By order of 30 June 2008 listing under the historical monuments of the ancient Jewish cemetery in whole with its portal tombs, monuments and other items, its soil and

subsoil Subsoil is the layer of soil under the topsoil on the surface of the ground. Like topsoil, it is composed of a variable mixture of small particles such as sand, silt and clay, but with a much lower percentage of organic matter and humus. The su ...

(cadastre BP 97). In 2013, the cemetery and other historical monuments of the Jewish community were included in an application for

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recognition.

References

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