This article traces the various ways in which Zionism has been interpreted and manifested itself in the context of the Lycée Maimonide, France’s first Jewish secondary school, from its founding in 1935 to the present day. Despite increasingly close ties to Israel, French Zionism has retained a diasp...
This article results from the exploitation of a documentary fund relating to a French officer of Jewish confession, taken prisoner after the defeat of 1940, then retained in a prison camp, in Austria first, in the oflag XVIIIA of Lienz, then in Germany in the Lübeck oflag XC. With the letters exchan...
This contribution compares the discourses on the war of 1870-1871 and 1914-1918 in the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums and Archives Israélites. In 1870-1871, the editors of these important Jewish newspapers declared their readiness to defend their homeland with arms, but they also expressed their...
The purpose of this article is to study the history and evolution of the North-African branch of the Jewish National Fund, better known as Kéren Kayémeth LeIsraël (KKL), from the 1920s to the post-independence period (1962), while highlighting its geographic singularities. The KKL’s actions in Tunis...
“Waking up Jewish”. The formula used in 1936 by Bernard Lecache, founder of the International League against Anti-Semitism (LICA), to express a feeling of personal liberation linked to the struggle against the persecutors of the Jews, could at first be understood as the testimony of an assumed Jewis...
Haitian and Jewish people appear essentially as two totally opposed ethnic groups. However, if it is true that, according certain objective criteria or features, such as culture, language, ethnicity or color, they are clearly different, it is also true that, according other characteristics, both sub...
At the beginning of 1947, Joseph Wulf and Michel Borwicz, two Polish Jewish migrants, members of the Jewish Historical Commission of Krakow since 1945, settled in Paris and started a small research institution dedicated to the history of Polish Jewry and its destruction during the Shoah. The study o...
In the aftermath of the Second World War, France overhauled its migration policy and more particularly the way it received refugees, in conjunction with international organizations specializing in this issue, in which it was a stakeholder. This article explores how these new orientations concerning...
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, France was the scene of an immigration of several tens of thousands of Jews from Central and Eastern Europe. Assistance to these migrants was then the exclusive responsibility of Jewish organizations that were already struggling to alleviate the distress o...
Among the tens of thousands of Jewish migrants from Central and Eastern Europe who came to Paris in the late 1940s were artists and intellectuals of Yiddish culture. Many of them became residents or habitual visitors of the “home for Jewish intellectuals” at 9 rue Guy-Patin in the Gare du Nord distr...