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has gloss | eng: Caslari is the name of a Jewish family originally from Caylar (Latin, "Castalarium"), a village in the department of Hérault, France. A rather important Jewish community existed at Caylar in the Middle Ages. After the royal edict of September 17, 1394, these Jews went to Provence and to the Comtat-Venaissin; in 1459 and 1487 some of them were at Tarascon, and in 1480 at Avignon (S. Kahn, Les Juifs de Tarascon, pp. 30, 32; Revue des Études Juives, x. 172). The Caslari family enjoyed a considerable reputation as late as the second half of the sixteenth century. It produced the following scholars: |
lexicalization | eng: Caslari family |
instance of | c/Jewish families |
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