Word: rusalem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Promised Land. By 1358, one-fifth of the 2,500 people living in Carpentras were Jewish, earning for the town the sobriquet La Petite Jérusalem. In contrast to most of Europe, the Jews were allowed to own land and engage in any occupation they chose except finance and the administration of justice; some of them became wine growers. Now and then the Jews were accused of poisoning fountains, propagating plagues or conniving with Saracens and lepers, but the Pope kept anti-Semitism in check by threatening to excommunicate religious bigots...
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