LIMOUX

LIMOUX, town in the department of Aude, languedoc , southern France. The existence of a Jewish community there is confirmed toward the end of the 13th century. Its privileges were withdrawn in 1292, as were also those of a number of other Jewish communities in Languedoc, but were restored in 1299. In 1302, the Jews of Limoux, again together with those of other localities in Languedoc, were freed by philip IV (the Fair), from liability to prosecution by inquisitors. At the beginning of the 14th century, some Jews from Limoux were living in Narbonne. A new community may have been constituted after 1315; this would be the one referred to in the Shevet Yehudah (ed. by A. Shochet, p. 149) under the name לשמאדש as having been massacred by the pastoureaux in 1320. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: G. Saige, Les Juifs du Languedoc (1881), 29, 33, 286; Gross, Gal Jud, 313–4; REJ, 2 (1881), 31; ibid., 38 (1899), 106. (Bernhard Blumenkranz)