Pour une spiritualité juive moderne : l'Union libérale israélite et ses fondatrices, Marguerite Brandon Salvador et Clarisse Eugène Simon

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On December 4th 1907, during the first service of the LIU, Copernic Street, Clarisse Eugene Simon and Marguerite Brandon Salvador knew that they had finally succeeded in introducing a reform of the French Judaism. History did not keep notice of the names of the two vice-presidents, although they were the first women to belong to the administrative presidency of a synagogue in France. It was their own project, their common wish which then became a reality, after a long ripening of that reform that went on in their sittingrooms. Since they were well off, as so many other ladies of the high middle-class, they dedicated much of their time and efforts to various philanthropic societies. But this was not an obstacle for them from acting as cultivated feminists. They shared another peculiarity, in a social group which was not interested in religion, but accepted conversions. They felt concerned with the national scope of Judaism as the religion of their ancestors, so deeply that they tried to change it according to modern priority. The aim of this article is to describe how they achieved their schemes and how this up-to-date Judaism is an answer to the wishes of a part of the upper Jewish society of that period.