DAMPIERRE-DE-L'AUBE

DAMPIERRE-DE-L'AUBE, locality in the Aube department, France, E. of Troyes. Situated a short distance from ramerupt , another medieval center of Jewish learning in champagne , Dampierre-de-l'Aube was the home of such eminent 12th- and 13th-century scholars as isaac b. samuel the Elder (1120?–1185?), his son elhanan (martyred in 1184?), and isaac b. abraham (d. c. 1209). The most important Jewish financier of Dampierre, Jacob, the son of Sanson Rufus, lent 450 livres to the Abbey of St. Loup in Troyes in 1220. Before 1224, the abbey also owed him two life annuities. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Gross, Gal Jud, 160–70; C. Lalore (ed.), Cartulaire… Saint-Loup de Troyes (1875), 250ff., 260, 271ff.; Urbach, Tosafot, passim. (Bernhard Blumenkranz)