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In 1256, around 3000 Jews were murdered in the French cities of Bretagne, Anjou, and Poitou. The violence and hatred spread by the pope encouraging violence led to the persecution of Jews in France. Many Jews fled to Narbonne, a city on the southwest coast of the country, which had long been a safe haven and center for Jewish life.
This is a timeline of deportations of French Jews to Nazi extermination camps in German-occupied Europe during World War II. The overall total of Jews deported from France is a minimum of 75,721. The overall total of Jews deported from France is a minimum of 75,721.
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 are repeatedly expelled from France and readmitted, for a price. 1343 Jews persecuted in Western Europe are invited to Poland by Casimir the Great. 1346–1353 Jews scapegoated as the cause of the growing Black Death. See also Medieval antisemitism 1348
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 ...
Napoleon, the Jews, and the Sanhedrin. Philadelphia 1979. Taieb, Julien. "From Maimonides to Napoleon: The True and the Normative." Global Jurist 7.1 (2007). Tozzi, Christopher. "Jews, soldiering, and citizenship in revolutionary and Napoleonic France." The Journal of Modern History 86.2 (2014): 233-257. Trigano, Shmuel. "The French Revolution ...
The Jewish population of Europe in 2010 was estimated to be approximately 1.4 million (0.2% of the European population), or 10% of the world's Jewish population. [6] In the 21st century, France has the largest Jewish population in Europe, [6] [10] followed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and Ukraine. [10]
The Jewish exodus continued until there were about 3,000 Jews left as of in 1967. 1962 Jews flee Algeria as result of FLN violence. The community feared that the proclamation of independence would precipitate a Muslim outburst. By the end of July 1962, 70,000 Jews had left for France and another 5,000 for Israel.