Papal Jews
Armand Lunel, last speaker of Judeo-Provençal | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Comtat Venaissin (until 1791) | |
| Languages | |
| Judeo-Provençal | |
| Religion | |
| Judaism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Sephardic Jews, Ashkenazi Jews |
Papal Jews, Pope's Jews (French: Juifs du pape, Hebrew: יהודי האפיפיור, romanized: Yehudei Ha'Apifyor or Hebrew: בני גולה, romanized: Bnei Gola), Avignonese Jews, also known by their pre-Revolution name Comtadin Jews (French: Juifs comtadins) lived in the Comtat Venaissin and in Avignon, ceded respectively in 1274 and 1348 to the Holy See and remaining under its administration until the French Revolution in 1791. Along with the Alsatian Jews, they formed for several centuries one of the only two Jewish communities authorised to live on what is today French territory, but which at the time of their establishment lay outside the borders of the Kingdom of France.