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The surviving French Jews were joined in the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s by large numbers of Jews from France's predominantly Muslim North African colonies (along with millions of other French nationals) as part of the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.
The synagogue became the largest Sephardic synagogue in France. [2] The number of Jews in Bordeaux grew significantly during the 1960s, as Jews who lived in the French colonies in North Africa fled from the newly decolonised Arab and Muslim states that were less tolerant of Judaism. [5]
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 ...
Following the Liberation of France, the Jewish community restarted their activities. [4] André Stora was the Hazzan for the synagogue from 1951 to 1956, before becoming the Hazzan of the Grand Synagogue of Paris. [10] In the 1960s, the land under the synagogue started sinking.
Maurice Papon (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis papɔ̃, moʁ-]; 3 September 1910 – 17 February 2007) was a French civil servant and Nazi collaborator who was convicted of crimes against humanity committed during the occupation of France. Papon led the police in major prefectures from the 1930s to the 1960s, before he became a Gaullist politician
Maurice Papon, who died in 2007, was the only Vichy France official to be convicted for his role in the deportation of Jews during World War Two. According to historian Jean-Luc Einaudi, a specialist on the massacre, some of the causes of the violent repression of the 17 October 1961 demonstration can best be understood in terms of the composition of the French police force itself, which still ...
Downplaying its Nazi past, the far-right National Rally party in France has tried to rebrand itself as an ally of Jews and Israel. For Jewish voters in France, the election is 'a choice between ...
Eastern-European and North-African Jewish immigration to France largely began in the mid to late 19th century. In 1872, there were an estimated 86,000 Jews living in France, and by 1945 this increased to 300,000. Many Jews integrated (or attempted to integrate) into French society, although French nationalism led to antisemitism in many quarters.