Jews of Peyrehorade
Claudine Laborde-Sabarots has written about Fernando de Medina (alias Moises Gomez), a Jew from Peyrehorade put on trial by the Mexican Inquisition in the 17th Century. It is reported that he was connected to the tobacco monopoly. Haim Beinart studied Moshe and Ya’acov Gomez from Peñaorada (same people and place!) on trial in Mexico in 1691. There were reported to have been forty “Portuguese” families in Peyrehorade in 1633. This sounds like a substantial number for a village. Claudine Laborde-Sabarots wrote an article on “La communaute de Peyrehorade”, but I have yet to read it. I believe she has also studied a cemetery in the village. Not sure if her research focuses on the Jewish community or the village.
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