Falces Or Falcet

A town near Lerin, Navarre. Its Jewish community suffered greatly during the persecution of 1328. In 1366 it contained only eighteen families. Isaac Bonafos b. Shealtiel, son-in-law of Isaac b. Sheshet, lived there, probably as a physician.

Bibliography:

  * Isaac b. Sheshet, Responsa, Nos. 71-77, 133-147;
  * Kayserling, Gesch. der Juden in Spanien, i. 45, 86.



G. M. K.