ÉVREUX

ÉVREUX, capital of the Eure department, N.W. France. During the Middle Ages, Évreux was renowned as a center of Jewish scholarship. Most famous of its scholars was the tosafist samuel (b. Sheneor) of Évreux, known as the "Prince of Évreux"; his elder brother, Moses of Évreux , was also a tosafist, and his two other brothers, the liturgical poet Judah and the commentator Isaac of Évreux , are also well known. The Jewish community lived in the "rue aux Juifs," later known as Rue de la Bove. The synagogue was situated on the eastern side of the street. After the expulsion of 1306, no community existed in Évreux. In the 1950s, a community was established by Jews from North Africa. In 1968 it had about 250 members. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Gross, Gal Jud, 38–43; U. Lamiray, Promenades… dans Evreux (1927), 162f. (Bernhard Blumenkranz)