Consistoire Casale Monferrato
The Consistoire Casale Monferrato , based in the city of Casale Monferrato , was created by Napoleon by an imperial decree of March 15, 1808 , like the Consistoire central israélite and twelve other regional consistories . Large parts of Italy were incorporated into the territory of the French state until 1814 .
tasks
The consistories, which were given semi-state status, were supposed to regulate the internal affairs of the Jewish religious community based on the Protestant model . The consistory had to administer the cult, to encourage the Jews to exercise useful professions and to nominate the Jewish recruits to the authorities .
At the top of the three-tier hierarchical structure was the Consistoire central israélite (Central Consistory) in Paris , to which the regional consistories (Consistoires régionaux) were subordinate, to which the individual Jewish communities (communautés juives) were subordinate. The consistories had the task of supervising the practice of religion within the state laws and of setting and collecting taxes so that the organs of the Jewish denomination could meet their expenses.
Each regional consistory had a chief rabbi and four lay members who were elected by the Jewish notables of the affiliated communities.
After Napoleon's defeat in 1814, the Italian territories were redistributed at the Congress of Vienna and the French laws governing the organization of Jewish residents became ineffective.
area
The Casale Monferrato consistory was responsible for the Jewish communities in the Doire , Gènes , Marengo , Montenotte and Sésia departments. In 1808, 2,929 Jewish citizens ( Citoyen ) lived in the départements .
Parishes (1808)
- Casale Monferrato Jewish community , 790 people
literature
- Dictionnaire biographique des rabbins et autres ministres du culte israélite. France et Algérie, du Grand Sanhédrin (1807) à la loi de Séparation (1905) . Berg International Éditeurs, Paris 2007
