SAINT-GILES

SAINT-GILES
SAINT-GILES, small town W. of Arles, France. The earliest implicit evidence of the presence of Jews in Saint-Giles dates from the beginning of the 12th century, with the polemic representation of an allegorical Synagoga on the abbey church (western face, southern door). About 1165 benjamin of Tudela found there 100 Jews (or heads of families). The community paid the abbot an annual tenure of 100 sols. In the autumn of 1215, Saint-Giles was the site of a meeting of delegates from communities between marseilles and narbonne who sought to forestall certain anti-Jewish canons which were being prepared for the Fourth lateran Council. After the expulsion of 1306, Jews of the locality took refuge in provence , and particularly in Marseilles. Scholars mentioned in Saint-Giles by Benjamin of Tudela are unknown from other sources. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Gross, Gal Jud, 650ff.; S. Kahn, in: Mémoires de l'Académie de Nîmes, 35 (1912), 1–23; B. Blumenkranz, in: Mélanges… R. Crozet (1966), 1155. (Bernhard Blumenkranz)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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