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Chaves

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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City in Portugal, which in the fourteenth century had a fairly large Jewish community, and an "aula," or school, "in which the Law was expounded by the rabbis." This school was subject to a special tax. Before the expulsion of the Jews from Portugal the Jewish quarter here annually paid 31,000 reis in taxes.

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  • Kayserling, Gesch. der Juden in Portugal, p. 49.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Chaves'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​c/chaves.html. 1901.
 
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