Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The history of the Jews in France deals with Jews and Jewish communities in France since at least the Early Middle Ages. France was a centre of Jewish learning in the Middle Ages , but persecution increased over time, including multiple expulsions and returns.
In 2019, the Jewish Agency evaluated the Jewish population in France to be 450,000, [1] not mentioning French citizens with only one Jewish parent or grandparent. The following is a list of some prominent Jews and people of Jewish origins, [ 2 ] among others (not all of them practice, or practiced, the Jewish religion) who were born in, or are ...
Deportation of Jews during the Marseille roundup, 23 January 1943. The Holocaust in France was the persecution, deportation, and annihilation of Jews between 1940 and 1944 in occupied France, metropolitan Vichy France, and in Vichy-controlled French North Africa, during World War II.
Jews deported to Auschwitz from Clermont-Ferrand on August 22, 1944 (at least 68) Jews deported to Auschwitz in convoys of "aryans" on July 8, 1942 and April 30, 1944 (at least 100) Jews deported individually (at least 100) Jews deported in resistance convoys (unknown) The overall total of Jews deported from France is a minimum of 75,721.
The decree prevented the Jews from relocating to the regions of Alsace and required that Jews wishing to move to other regions of France to own or purchase land to farm. It also required them to refrain from engaging in any kind of money-lending activity (the law eventually placed these restrictions only on the Jews of the northeast).
The Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse is part of a national chain of at least twenty Jewish schools throughout France. It educates children of primarily Sephardic, Middle Eastern and North African descent, who with their parents have made up the majority of Jewish immigrants to France since the late 20th century. The school is a middle and ...
Starting in the spring of 1348, pogroms against Jews had occurred in European cities, starting in Toulon. By November of that year they spread via Savoy to German-speaking territories. In January 1349, burnings of Jews took place in Basel and Freiburg, and on 14 February the Jewish community in Strasbourg was destroyed.
During the eight sessions, the Grand Sanhedrin was forced to condone intermarriage between Frenchmen and Jews so that the Jewish people might be absorbed into France, [9] since Jews were considered substandard citizens [10] and needed to be either absorbed or expelled. The group also had to support other actions to assimilate the Jews by ...