Consistoire Turin
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The Consistoire Turin was an administrative institute created by Napoleon in 1808 for the interior of the Jewish religious community with its seat in the city of Turin .
Like the Consistoire central israélite and twelve more regional consistories, it was created by Napoleon by an imperial decree of March 15, 1808. Large parts of Italy were incorporated into the territory of the French state until 1814 .
tasks
The consistories established according to the Protestant model with semi-state status 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.
With the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, the Italian territories were redistributed among the states and the French laws governing the organization of Jewish residents became ineffective.
area
The Turin Consistory was responsible for the Jewish communities in the Pô and Stura departments. In 1808, 2,614 Jewish citizens ( Citoyen ) lived in these departments .
Parishes (1808)
- Jewish community of Turin , 1,450 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
