Condom

County seat in the department of Gers, France. Jews were found there at the beginning of the fourteenth century. In order to pass through this locality, they were heavily taxed. A Jewess, not enceinte, had to pay eight deniers Tours currency; if enceinte, she had to pay double that amount. In 1320, during the persecutions of the Pastoureaux, all the Jews of Condom were massacred.

Bibliography:

  * Kayserling, Gesch. der Juden in Navarra, p. 139;
  * Joseph Ha-Kohen, 'Emeḳ ha-Baka, P. 72;
  * Rev. Etudes Juives, xvi. 219;
  * Gross, Gallia Judaica, p. 552.



G. S. K.