Une table cacher et conviviale au Quartier latin : le Foyer Israélite dans les années 1950 et 1960

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Kashrut and Sociability in the Latin Quarter: The Foyer Israelite in the 1950s and 1960sApproved by student social organizations, the University Restaurant Le Foyer Israelite, located on the rue de Médicis in Paris served kosher food. This article examines, through an oral history survey, the ways in which students from North Africa experienced their encounter with this Parisian-Jewish institution. This testimony, as well as the few written sources that exist on the restaurant, indicate that it was not a place in which young North African Jews “discovered” Ashkenazi cuisine. Nonetheless, in proposing kosher food, the restaurant was a meeting-place for the new arrivals and permitted them to insert themselves in a particular geographical place upon arrival in Paris. Going to this restaurant allowed them to create an intermediary space between the family sphere, the country of birth that they had left behind, and Parisian student life.