Chaves

City in Portugal, which in the fourteenth century had a fairly large Jewish community, and an "aula," or school, "in which the Law was expounded by the rabbis." This school was subject to a special tax. Before the expulsion of the Jews from Portugal the Jewish quarter here annually paid 31,000 reis in taxes.

Bibliography:

  * Kayserling, Gesch. der Juden in Portugal, p. 49.



G. M. K.