2010
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Bernard Giroux, « La Jeunesse étudiante chrétienne (J.E.C.) face au judaïsme », Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah, ID : 10670/1.s092sg
Christian Students facing JudaismThese movements rejected every kind of anti-Semitism as from the thirties, and this lesson was reasserted with courage during the regime of Vichy and the German Occupation of France. It still exists nowadays, even if it progressively lost its spiritual foundations.For eighty years, the Jew’s image has been used especially in the J.E.C. reviews in order to stand up for a type of Christianity and Church. It still hawks some stereotypes, for the meaning of Jewish people’s durability, like the Holocaust’s, have not been construed yet by the leaders of the movement.The Jeunesse étudiante chrétienne (J.E.C.) and the Jeunesse étudiante chrétienne féminine (J.E.C.F.) are two French movements of “Catholic Action” that appeared at the end of the twenties. They aimed for the rechristianisation af schooled young people.