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On the night of October 2–3, 1941, six synagogues in Paris were attacked and damaged by an explosive devices places by their doors.<ref name="Passmore-Millington-2015">{{cite book|author1=Kevin Passmore|author2=Chris Millington|title=Political Violence and Democracy in Western Europe, 1918-1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v5hMCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT195|date=16 July 2015|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-1-137-51595-7|pages=195 |quote=On 2-3 October Deloncle and his men bombed seven synagogues with explosives supplied by the Germans – using terrorism once again to send another message to France, this one tied to their vehement antisemitism.}}</ref> |
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[[Helmut Knochen]], Chief Commandant of the ''[[Sicherheitspolizei]]'' (Nazi Occupying Security Services)<ref>{{cite web |author= |title=La Police de sécurité allemande et ses auxiliaires en Europe de l’ouest occupée (1940-1945) |trans-title=The German Security Police and its auxiliaries in occupied Western Europe |url=http://www.ciera.fr/de/node/2047 |website=Ciera |date=7 November 2012}}</ref> ordered the attacks on the Paris syagogues.{{cn|date=July 2021}} Members of the [[Milice]] placed the bombs.{{cn|date=July 2021}} The [[Revolutionary Social Movement]] (MSR), a [[Far-right politics|Far-right]] political party was also implicated in the attacks.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paris Promeneurs – La synagogue de la rue Pavée |url=http://www.paris-promeneurs.com/Architecture-moderne/La-synagogue-de-la-rue-Pavee |access-date=October 29, 2020 |website=www.paris-promeneurs.com}}</ref> |
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According to the correspondent for the Vichy newspaper ''Feuille d'Avis de Neuchâtel et du Vignoble neuchâtelois'', on Saturday October 4, 1941:{{quote|On the night of Thursday and Friday in Paris between 1 am and 5 am, attacks took place against seven synagogues. The Synagogue de la rue de Tournelle{{sic}}, Synagogue de la rue Montespan{{sic}}, Synagogue de la rue Copernic, Synagogue de Notre-Dame de Lazaret{{sic}},Synagogue de Notre-Dame des victoires and a sixth located on a road in which we don't yet know the name were attacked. The damage is considerable, as just the walls remain. The bomb at the Synagogue de la rue Pavée, near City Hall, was removed in time. Two people were injured. Admiral Dard, Prefect of Police, arrived on the scene and is leading the investigation. The attacks took places the day after the [[Day of Atonement]].<ref name="rero 56043">[http://doc.rero.ch/record/56043/files/1941-10-04.pdf Le terrorisme en France occupée. Attentats contre les synagogues de Paris. Des explosifs ont détruit ainsi sept des lieux de culte Israélite les plus connus de la capitale. Feuille d'Avis de Neuchâtel et du Vignoble neuchâtelois, samedi 4 octobre 1941, p. 1.]</ref> |
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The perpetrators were identified but not arrested.{{cn|date=July 2021}} |
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Antisemitism in France is the expression through words or actions of an ideology of hatred of Jews on French soil.
In the Middle Ages, France was a center of Jewish learning, but over time, persecution increased, including multiple expulsions and returns.
During the French Revolution in the late 18th century, on the other hand, France was the first country in Europe to emancipate its Jewish population. Antisemitism still occurred in cycles, reaching a high level in the 1890s, as shown during the Dreyfus affair, and in the 1940s, under German occupation and the Vichy regime.[citation needed]
During World War II, the Vichy government collaborated with Nazi occupiers to deport a large number of both French Jews and foreign Jewish refugees to concentration camps.[1] Another 110,000 French Jews were living in the colony of French Algeria.[2] By the war's end, 25% of the Jewish population of France had perished in the Holocaust, though this was a lower proportion than in most other countries under Nazi occupation.[3][4]
Since 2010 or so, more French Jews have been moving to Israel in response to rising antisemitism in France.[5]
Roman Gaul
There have been Jews in France for around two millenia.[6] In the year 6 C.E. there were Jews at Vienne and Gallia Celtica; in the year 39 at Lugdunum (Lyon)".[7] Information is sketchy, but there is evidence, some dating to the first century, of geographically widespread habitation in Metz, Poitiers, or Avignon. By the fifth century, there is evidence of settlements in Brittany, Orleans, Narbonne and elsewhere.[6]
From the fifth to the eighth century, the Merovingians ruled France.[6] The emperors Theodosius II and Valentinian III sent a decree to Amatius, prefect of Gaul (9 July 425), that prohibited Jews and pagans from practising law or holding public offices. This was to prevent Christians being subject to them and possibly incited to change their faith.[7] Clovis I converted to Catholicism in 496, along with the majority of the population which brought pressure on Jews to convert as well. The bishops in some localities offered Jews in their pervue a choice between baptism and expulsion.[6] In the sixth century, Jews were documented in Marseilles, Arles, Uzès, Narbonne, Clermont-Ferrand, Orléans, Paris, and Bordeaux.[7]
The conversion to Christianity of the Visigoths and Franks made the condition of the Jews difficult: a succession of ecumenical councils diminished their rights until Dagobert I forced them to convert or leave France in 633.[8][page needed] During the councils of Elvira (305), Vannes (465), the three Councils of Orleans (533, 538, 541), and the Council of Clermont (535), the Church forbade Jews to have meals together with Christians, to have mixed marriages and proscribed the celebration of the shabbat, the aim being to limit the influence of Judaism on the population.[citation needed]
Middle Ages
Persecutions under the Capets
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There were widespread persecutions of Jews in France beginning in 1007.[9] These persecutions, instigated by Robert II (972–1031), King of France (987–1031), called "the Pious", are described in a Hebrew pamphlet,[10][11] which also states that the King of France conspired with his vassals to destroy all the Jews on their lands who would not accept baptism, and many were put to death or killed themselves. Robert is credited with advocating forced conversions of local Jewry, as well as mob violence against Jews who refused.[12] Among the dead was the learned Rabbi Senior. Robert the Pious is well known for his lack of religious toleration and for the hatred which he bore toward heretics; it was Robert who reinstated the Roman imperial custom of burning heretics at the stake.[13] In Normandy under Richard II, Duke of Normandy, Rouen Jewry suffered from persecutions that were so terrible that many women, in order to escape the fury of the mob, jumped into the river and drowned. A notable of the town, Jacob b. Jekuthiel, a Talmudic scholar, sought to intercede with Pope John XVIII to stop the persecutions in Lorraine (1007).[14] Jacob undertook the journey to Rome, but was imprisoned with his wife and four sons by Duke Richard, and escaped death only by allegedly miraculous means.[clarification needed] He left his eldest son, Judah, as a hostage with Richard while he with his wife and three remaining sons went to Rome. He bribed the pope with seven gold marks and two hundred pounds, who thereupon sent a special envoy to King Robert ordering him to stop the persecutions.[11][15]
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If Adhémar of Chabannes, who wrote in 1030, is to be believed (he had a reputation as a fabricator), the anti-Jewish feelings arose in 1010 after Western Jews addressed a letter to their Eastern coreligionists warning them of a military movement against the Saracens. According to Adémar, Christians urged by Pope Sergius IV[16] were shocked by the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by the Muslims in 1009. After the destruction, European reaction to the rumor of the letter was of shock and dismay, Cluniac monk Rodulfus Glaber blamed the Jews for the destruction. In that year Alduin, Bishop of Limoges (bishop 990-1012), offered the Jews of his diocese the choice between baptism and exile. For a month theologians held disputations with the Jews, but without much success, for only three or four of Jews abjured their faith; others killed themselves; and the rest either fled or were expelled from Limoges.[17][18] Similar expulsions took place in other French towns.[18] By 1030, Rodulfus Glaber knew more concerning this story.[19] According to his 1030 explanation, Jews of Orléans had sent to the East through a beggar a letter which provoked the order for the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Glaber adds that, on the discovery of the crime, the expulsion of the Jews was everywhere decreed. Some were driven out of the cities, others were put to death, while some killed themselves; only a few remained in all the "Roman world". Count Paul Riant (1836-1888) says that this whole story of the relations between the Jews and the Mohammedans is only one of those popular legends with which the chronicles of the time abound.[20]
Another violent commotion arose about 1065. At this date Pope Alexander II wrote to Béranger, Viscount of Narbonne and to Guifred, bishop of the city, praising them for having prevented the massacre of the Jews in their district, and reminding them that God does not approve of the shedding of blood. In 1065 also, Alexander admonished Landulf VI of Benevento "that the conversion of Jews is not to be obtained by force."[21] Also in the same year, Alexander called for a crusade against the Moors in Spain.[22] These Crusaders killed without mercy all the Jews whom they met on their route.
Crusades
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The Jews of France suffered during the First Crusade (1096), when the crusaders are stated, for example, to have shut up the Jews of Rouen in a church and to have murdered them without distinction of age or sex, sparing only those who accepted baptism. According to a Hebrew document, the Jews throughout France were at that time in great fear, and wrote to their brothers in the Rhine countries making known to them their terror and asking them to fast and pray. In the Rhineland, thousands of Jews were killed by the crusaders (see German Crusade, 1096).[citation needed]
The Rhineland massacres, also known as the German Crusade of 1096,[23] were a series of mass murders of Jews perpetrated by mobs of German Christians of the People's Crusade in the year 1096, or 4856 according to the Jewish calendar. These massacres are seen as the first in a sequence of antisemitic events in Europe which culminated in the Holocaust.[24]
Prominent leaders of crusaders involved in the massacres included Peter the Hermit and especially Count Emicho.[25] As part of this persecution, the destruction of Jewish communities in Speyer, Worms and Mainz was noted as the "Hurban Shum" (Destruction of Shum).[26]
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In the County of Toulouse Jews were received on good terms until the Albigensian Crusade. Toleration and favour shown to the Jews was one of the main complaints of the Roman Church against the Counts of Toulouse. Following the Crusaders' successful wars against Raymond VI and Raymond VII, the Counts were required to discriminate against Jews like other Christian rulers. In 1209, stripped to the waist and barefoot, Raymond VI was obliged to swear that he would no longer allow Jews to hold public office. In 1229 his son Raymond VII, underwent a similar ceremony where he was obliged to prohibit the public employment of Jews, this time at Notre Dame in Paris. Explicit provisions on the subject were included in the Treaty of Meaux (1229). By the next generation a new, zealously Catholic, ruler was arresting and imprisoning Jews for no crime, raiding their houses, seizing their cash, and removing their religious books. They were then released only if they paid a new "tax". A historian has argued that organized and official persecution of the Jews became a normal feature of life in southern France only after the Albigensian Crusade because it was only then that the Church became powerful enough to insist that measures of discrimination be applied.[27]
Expulsions and returns
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The practice of expelling the Jews accompanied by confiscation of their property, followed by temporary readmissions for ransom, was used during the Middle Ages to enrich the crown, including expulsions:[citation needed]
- from Paris by Philip Augustus in 1182
- from Vienne by order of Pope Innocent III in 1253[28]
- from Brittany in 1240[29]
- from Poitou in 1249[29]
- from France by Louis IX in 1254
- by Edward I of England from Gascony in 1288[29]
- from Anjou and Maine in 1289[29]
- from Nevers in 1294[29]
- from Niort in 1296[29]
- from Royal lands by Philip IV in 1306[29]
- by Charles IV in 1322
- by Charles V in 1359
- by Charles VI in 1394.
In 1182, Philip Augustus expelled the Jews from France, and recalled them again in 1198. There were various restrictions on interest on capital or debt in the 13th century under Louis VIII (1223–26) and Louis IX (1226–70). The Medieval Inquisition, which had been instituted in order to suppress Catharism, finally occupied itself with the Jews of Southern France who converted to Christianity. In 1306 the treasury was nearly empty, and the king, as he was about to do the following year in the case of the Templars, condemned the Jews to banishment, and took forcible possession of their property, real and personal. Their houses, lands, and movable goods were sold at auction; and for the king were reserved any treasures found buried in the dwellings that had belonged to the Jews. In 1306, Louis X (1314–16) recalled the Jews. In an edict dated 28 July 1315, he permitted them to return for a period of twelve years, authorizing them to establish themselves in the cities in which they had lived before their banishment.
On 17 September 1394, Charles VI suddenly published an ordinance in which he declared that thenceforth no Jew should dwell in his domains ("Ordonnances", vii. 675). According to the Religieux de St. Denis, the king signed this decree at the insistence of the queen ("Chron. de Charles VI." ii. 119).[30] The decree was not immediately enforced, a respite being granted to the Jews in order that they might sell their property and pay their debts. Those indebted to them were enjoined to redeem their obligations within a set time; otherwise their pledges held in pawn were to be sold by the Jews. The provost was to escort the Jews to the frontier of the kingdom. Subsequently, the king released the Christians from their debts.[31]
Black Death
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The Black Death plague devastated Europe in the mid-14th century, annihilating more than a half of the population, with Jews being made scapegoats. Rumors spread that they caused the disease by deliberately poisoning wells. Hundreds of Jewish communities were destroyed by violence, in particular in the Iberian peninsula and in the Germanic Empire. In Provence, forty Jews were burnt in Toulon as early as April 1348.[32] "Never mind that Jews were not immune from the ravages of the plague; they were tortured until they confessed to crimes that they could not possibly have committed.
"The large and significant Jewish communities in such cities as Nuremberg, Frankfurt, and Mainz were wiped out at this time."(1406)[33] In one such case, a man named Agimet was ... coerced to say that Rabbi Peyret of Chambéry (near Geneva) had ordered him to poison the wells in Venice, Toulouse, and elsewhere. In the aftermath of Agimet's "confession", the Jews of Strasbourg were burned alive on 14 February 1349.[34][35]
Although Pope Clement VI tried to protect them by the 6 July 1348 papal bull and another 1348 bull, several months later, 900 Jews were burnt in Strasbourg, where the plague hadn't yet affected the city.[32] Clement VI condemned the violence and said those who blamed the plague on the Jews (among whom were the flagellants) had been "seduced by that liar, the Devil."[36]
The first massacre directly related to the plague took place in April 1348 in Toulon, where the Jewish quarter was sacked, and forty Jews were murdered in their homes. Shortly afterward, violence broke out in Barcelona and other Catalan cities.[37] In 1349, massacres and persecutions spread across Europe, including the Erfurt massacre, the Basel massacre, massacres in Aragon, and Flanders.[38][39] 2,000 Jews were burnt alive on 14 February 1349 in the "Valentine's Day" Strasbourg massacre, where the plague had not yet affected the city. While the ashes smouldered, Christian residents of Strasbourg sifted through and collected the valuable possessions of Jews not burnt by the fires.[40][32] Many hundreds of Jewish communities were destroyed in this period. Within the 510 Jewish communities destroyed in this period, some members killed themselves to avoid the persecutions.[41] In the spring of 1349 the Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main was annihilated. This was followed by the destruction of Jewish communities in Mainz and Cologne. The 3,000 strong Jewish population of Mainz initially defended themselves and managed to hold off the Christian attackers. But the Christians managed to overwhelm the Jewish ghetto in the end and killed all of its Jews.[40] At Speyer, Jewish corpses were disposed in wine casks and cast into the Rhine. By the close of 1349 the worst of the pogroms had ended in Rhineland. But around this time the massacres of Jews started rising near the Hansa townships of the Baltic Coast and in Eastern Europe. By 1351 there had been 350 incidents of anti-Jewish pogroms and 60 major and 150 minor Jewish communities had been exterminated.[citation needed]
Stereotypes and medieval Art
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During the Middle Ages, much art was created by Christians that depicted Jews in a fictional or stereotypical manner; the great majority of narrative religious Medieval art depicted events from the Bible, where the majority of persons shown had been Jewish. But the extent to which this was emphasized in their depictions varied greatly. Some of this art was based on preconceived notions about how Jews dressed or looked, as well as the “sinning” acts which Christians believed that they committed.[42] One iconic symbol of this era was Ecclesia and Synagoga, a pair of statues personifying the Christian Church (Ecclesia) next to her predecessor, the Nation of Israel (synagoga). The latter was often displayed blindfolded and carrying a tablet of the law sliping from her hand, sometimes also bearing a broken staff, whereas Ecclesia was standing upright with a crowned head, a chalice and a staff adorned with the cross.[43] This was often as a result of a misinterpretation of the Christian doctrine of supersessionism involving a replacement of the "old" covenant given to Moses by the "new" covenant of Christ, which medieval Christians took to mean that the Jews had fallen out of God's favor.[citation needed]
Medieval Christians believed in the idea of Jewish "stubbornness", because Jews did not accept that Christ was the Messiah. This idea extended further in that the Jews dismissed Christ so far that they decided to murder him by nailing him to a cross. Jews were, therefore, marked as the "enemies of Christians" and "Christ-killers."[42] This notion was one of the main inspirations behind antisemitic portrayals of Jews in Christian art.[citation needed]
According to medieval Christians, anyone who did not agree with their ideas of faith, including the Jewish people, were automatically assumed to be friendly with the devil and simultaneously condemned to hell. In many portrayals of Christian art, Jews are made out to resemble demons or interact with the devil. This is meant to not only portray Jews as ugly, evil, and grotesque but also to establish that demons and Jews are innately similar. Jews would also be placed in front of hell to further showcase that they are damned.[42]
By the twelfth century, the concept of a "stereotypical Jew" was widely known. A stereotypical Jew was usually male with a heavy beard, a hat, and a large, crooked nose which were significant identifiers for someone Jewish. These notions were portrayed in medieval art, which ultimately ensured that a Jew could easily be identified. The idea behind a stereotypical Jew was primarily to portray them as an ugly creature who is to be avoided and feared.[42]
Ancien Regime
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The Ancien Regime was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages (circa 15th century) until the French Revolution of 1789, during the period known as Early Modern France and epitomized by the 72-year reign (1643–1715) of King Louis XIV. In the run-up to the Revolution, France had a Jewish population of around 40,000 to 50,000, chiefly centered in Bordeaux, Metz and a few other cities. They had very limited rights and opportunities, apart from the moneylending business, but their status was legal.[44]
Jewish residents of France lived on the periphery of the country: in the southwest, southeast, and northeast under conditions inherited from the Middle Ages, with only around 400 in Paris. Their main concern was simply to maintain their right of residency, which involved significant financial payments to various rulers, which was complex due to the division of authority between king and local seigneurs. In return, Jews were allowed to live in specific places, and occupy certain limited occupations, especially moneylending, and secondhand sales. Jews were a tolerated alien group that formed their own self-governing community, parallel to the general social order, but not quite part of it, and governed by their own halakha law. Although suffering social antipathy, they were able to practice their religion; in some areas only fairly recently. Of the various Jewish communities, the Marranos of the southwest, principally from Bordeaux, were the most commercially valued by the Crown, and were the most socially acculturated to general French society. Expelled from France in the 14th century, their privileges were once again recognized by Louis XV in 1723, primarily due to their economic utility as bankers and brokers.[45]
Nineteenth century
Media and organizations
Three antisemitic publications were formed in the 1882-1885 period, but did not last long: L'Anti-Juif, L'Anti-Sémitique, and Le Péril sociale.[46]
Edouard Drumont published his 1200-page antisemitic tract La France juive ("Jewish France") in 1886.[46] A best-seller of its time, it was immensely popular[47][page needed] and went through 140 printings in the first two years after initial publication. The book was so popular, it spawned its own literary genre, which saw the production of Jewish Russia by Calixte de Wolski and Jewish Algeria by Georges Meynié in 1887, Jewish Austria by François Trocase in 1900, and Jewish England by Doedalus in 1913.[47][page needed] Drumont's book was reprinted in 1938, 1986, and 2012; and in digital version in 2018.
Inspired by the success of the book, Drumont and Template:Ill fr founded the Antisemitic League of France (Ligue antisémitique de France) in 1889. It was active in the Dreyfus Affair.[46] Jules Guérin was an active member. The League organized demonstrations and riots, a tactic later copied by other far-right organizations.[citation needed] Guerin edited the anti-Dreyfusard weekly newspaper L'Antijuif as the official organ of the Antisemitic League from 1898 to 1899.[48]
Panama Canal Scandal
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The Panama Canal Scandal was a corruption affair that broke out in the French Third Republic in 1892, linked to a French company's failed attempt at building a canal through Panama. Close to half a billion francs were lost. Members of the French government took bribes to keep quiet about the Panama Canal Company's financial troubles in what is regarded as the largest monetary corruption scandal of the 19th century.[49]
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Hannah Arendt argues that the affair had an immense importance in the development of French antisemitism, due to the involvement of two Jews of German origin, Baron Jacques de Reinach and Cornelius Herz. Although they were not among the bribed Parliament members or on the company's board, according to Arendt they were in charge of distributing the bribe money, Reinach among the right wing of the bourgeois parties, Herz among the anti-clerical radicals. Reinach was a secret financial advisor to the government and handled its relations with the Panama Company. Herz was Reinach's contact in the radical wing, but Herz's double-dealing blackmail ultimately drove Reinach to suicide.
However, before his death Reinach gave a list of the suborned members of Parliament to La Libre Parole, Edouard Drumont's antisemitic daily, in exchange for the paper's covering up Reinach's own role. Overnight, the story transformed La Libre Parole from an obscure sheet into one of the most influential papers in the country. The list of culprits was published morning by morning in small installments, so that hundreds of politicians had to live on tenterhooks for months. In Arendt's view, the scandal showed that the middlemen between the business sector and the state were almost exclusively Jews, thus helping to pave the way for the Dreyfus Affair.[50]
Dreyfus Affair
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The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. "L'Affaire", as it is known in French, has come to symbolise modern injustice in the Francophone world,[51] and it remains one of the most notable examples of a complex miscarriage of justice and antisemitism. The role played by the press and public opinion proved influential in the conflict.
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The scandal began in December 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus of Alsatian Jewish descent was convicted of treason. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly communicating French military secrets to the Germans, and was imprisoned in Devil's Island in French Guiana, where he spent nearly five years.
Antisemitism was a prominent factor throughout the affair. Existing prior to the Dreyfus affair, it had expressed itself during the boulangisme affair and the Panama Canal scandal but was limited to an intellectual elite. The Dreyfus Affair spread hatred of Jews through all strata of society, a movement that certainly began with the success of Jewish France by Édouard Drumont in 1886.[52] It was then greatly amplified by various legal episodes and press campaigns for nearly fifteen years. Antisemitism was thenceforth official and was evident in numerous settings including the working classes.[53] Candidates for the legislative elections took advantage of antisemitism as a watchword in parliamentary elections. This antisemitism was reinforced by the crisis of the separation of church and state in 1905, which probably led to its height in France. Antisemitic actions were permitted on the advent of the Vichy regime, which allowed free and unrestrained expression of racial hatred.[citation needed]
Antisemitic riots
Antisemitic riots predated the Dreyfus Affair, and were almost a tradition in the East, where "the Alsatian people observed upon the outbreak of any revolution in France".[54] But the antisemitic riots that broke out in 1898 during the Dreyfus Affair were much more widespread. There were three waves of violence during January and February in 55 localities: the first ending the week of 23 January; the second wave in the week following; and the third wave from 23-28 February; these waves and other incidents totaled 69 riots or disturbances across the country. Additionally, riots took place in French Algeria from 18-25 January. Demonstrators at these disturbances threw stones, chanted slogans, attacked Jewish property and sometimes Jewish people, and resisted police efforts to stop them. Mayors called for calm, and troops including cavalry were called in an attempt to quell the disturbances.[55]
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Emile Zola's famous account J'Accuse appeared in L'Aurore on 13 January 1898, and most histories suggest that the riots were spontaneous reactions to its publication, and the subsequent Zola trial, with reports that "tumultuous demonstrations broke out nearly every day". Prefects or police in various towns noted demonstrations in their localities, and associated them with "the campaign undertaken in favor of ex-Captain Dreyfus", or with the "intervention by M. Zola", or the Zola trial itself, which "seems to have aroused the antisemitic demonstrations". In Paris, demonstrations around the Zola trial were frequent and sometimes violent. Martin du Gard reported that "Individuals with Jewish features were grabbed, surrounded, and roughed up by delirious youths who danced round them, brandishing flaming torches, made from rolled-up copies of L'Aurore.[55]
However the fervid reaction to the Affair and especially the Zola trial was only partly spontaneous. In a dozen cities including Nantes, Lille, and Le Havre, antisemitic posters appeared in the streets, and riots followed soon after. At Saint-Etienne, posters read, "Imitate your brothers of Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse... join with them in demonstrating against the underhand attacks being made on the Nation." In Caen, Marseille, and other cities, riots followed antisemitic speeches or meetings, such as the meeting organized by the Comité de Défense Religieuse et Sociale in Caen.[55]
Vichy regime
During World War II, the Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany to arrest and deport a large number of both French Jews and foreign Jewish refugees to concentration camps.[1] By the war's end, 25% of the Jewish population of France had perished in the Holocaust.[3][4]
Aryanization
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Aryanization was the forced expulsion of Jews from business life in Nazi Germany, Axis-aligned states, and their occupied territories. It entailed the transfer of Jewish property into "Aryan" hands. The process started in 1933 in Nazi Germany with transfers of Jewish property and ended with the Holocaust.[56][57] Two phases have generally been identified: a first phase in which the theft from Jewish victims was concealed under a veneer of legality, and a second phase, in which property was more openly confiscated. In both cases, Aryanization corresponded to Nazi policy and was defined, supported, and enforced by Germany's legal and financial bureaucracy.[58][59] Between $230 and $320 billion (in 2005 [US] dollars) was stolen from Jews across Europe,[60] with hundreds of thousands of businesses Aryanized.
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The term is also used by historians to refer to the spoliation of French Jews, carried out jointly and concurrently by the German occupier and the Vichy regime. It followed the law of 22 July 1941 of the "French State", which itself followed the relentless Aryanization by the Germans in the fall of 1940 in the occupied zone. Long neglected, the spoliation of Jewish property has become a highly developed field of research since the 1990s.
The dispossession of Jews was from the outset included in the mission statement of the Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs, created on 29 March 1941 and directed first by Xavier Vallat and then by Louis Darquier de Pellepoix. From the summer of 1940, various German departments were also actively engaged in stealing Jewish property. Ambassador Otto Abetz took advantage of the 1940 Mass exodus to southern France [fr; es; pt] to steal the art collections of absent Jewish owners. At the end of 1941, the Germans imposed an exorbitant fine of one billion francs on the French Jewish community, to be paid among other things upon the sale of Jewish property, and managed by the Caisse des dépôts et consignations.
Historian Henry Rousso estimated the number of Aryanized companies at 10,000.[61] There were 50,000 appointments administrators of Jewish property during the Occupation. By 1940, 50% of the Jewish community was deprived of their normal livelihood according to Vichy laws prohibiting them from many occupations as well as by German ordinances.[62]
Propaganda
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Le Juif et la France (The Jews and France) was an antisemitic propaganda exhibition that took place in Paris from 5 September 1941 to 15 January 1942[63] during the German occupation of France. A film version of the exhibition came out in French cinemas in October 1941.[64]
It was organized and financed by the propaganda arm of the German military administration in France via the Institut d'étude des questions juives (IEQJ) (Institute for the Study of Jewish Questions) under regulation by the Gestapo and attracted around half a million visitors.[63][64] This exhibition was based on the work of Professor George Montandon at the School of Anthropology in Paris, author of the book Comment reconnaître le Juif? (How to recognize a Jew?) published in November 1940. It had pretensions of being "scientific". It was opened by Carltheo Zeitschel and Theodor Dannecker on 5 September 1941[65][page needed][66] at the Palais Berlitz.[67]
Anti-Jewish legislation
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Anti-Jewish laws were enacted by the Vichy government in 1940 and 1941 affecting metropolitan France and its overseas territories during World War II. These laws were, in fact, decrees by head of state Marshal Philippe Pétain, since Parliament was no longer in office as of 11 July 1940. The motivation for the legislation was spontaneous and was not mandated by Germany.[68][69]
In July 1940, Vichy set up a special commission charged with reviewing naturalizations granted since the 1927 reform of the nationality law.[70] Between June 1940 and August 1944, 15,000 persons, mostly Jews, were denaturalized.[71] This bureaucratic decision was instrumental in their subsequent internment in the green ticket roundup.[citation needed]
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Pétain personally made the 3 October 1940 law even more aggressively antisemitic than it initially was, as can be seen by annotations made on the draft in his own hand.[72] The law "embraced the definition of a Jew established in the Nuremberg Laws",[73] deprived the Jews of their civil rights, and fired them from many jobs. The law also forbade Jews from working in certain professions (teachers, journalists, lawyers, etc.) while the law of 4 October 1940 provided authority for the incarceration of foreign Jews in internment camps in southern France such as Gurs.
The statutes were aimed at depriving Jews of the right to hold public office, designating them as a lower class, and depriving them of citizenship.[74][75][76] Many Jews were subsequently rounded up at Drancy internment camp before being deported for extermination in Nazi concentration camps.
After the liberation of Paris when the Provisional government was in control under Charles de Gaulle, these laws were declared null and void on 9 August 1944.[77]
Between 1940 and 1944 Jews in occupied France, the zone libre, and in Vichy-controlled French North Africa as well as Romani people were persecuted, rounded up in raids, and deported to Nazi death camps. The persecution began in 1940, and culminated in deportations of Jews from France to Nazi concentration camps in Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Poland. The deportations started in 1942 and lasted until July 1944. Of the 340,000 Jews living in metropolitan/continental France in 1940, more than 75,000 were deported to death camps, where about 72,500 were killed. The government of Vichy France and the French police organized and implemented the roundups of Jews.[78]
The Holocaust
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Between 1940 and 1944 Jews in occupied France, the zone libre, and in Vichy-controlled French North Africa as well as Romani people were persecuted, rounded up in raids, and deported to Nazi death camps. The persecution began in 1940, and culminated in deportations of Jews from France to Nazi concentration camps in Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Poland. The deportations started in 1942 and lasted until July 1944. Of the 340,000 Jews living in metropolitan/continental France in 1940, more than 75,000 were deported to death camps, where about 72,500 were killed. The government of Vichy France and the French police organized and implemented the roundups of Jews.[78]
Roundups
French police carried out numerous roundups of Jews during World War II, including the Green ticket roundup in 1941,[79][80] the massive Vélodrome d'Hiver round-up in 1942 in which over 13,000 Jews were arrested,[81][82] and the roundup in the Old Port of Marseille in 1943.[83] Almost all of those arrested were deported to Auschwitz or other death camps.
Green ticket roundup
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The green ticket roundup took place on 14 May 1941 during the Nazi occupation of France. The mass arrest started a day after French Police delivered a green card (French: billet vert) to 6694 foreign Jews living in Paris, instructing them to report for a "status check".[84]
Over half reported as instructed, most of them Polish and Czech. They were arrested and deported to one of two transit camps in France. Most of them were interned for a year before getting deported to Auschwitz and killed. The Green ticket roundup was the first mass round-up of Jewish people by the Vichy Regime.[85]
July 1942 Vel' d'Hiv Roundup
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In July 1942 the French police organized the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv) under orders of René Bousquet and his second in Paris, Jean Leguay, with co-operation from authorities of the SNCF, the state railway company. The police arrested 13,152 Jews, including 4,051 children—which the Gestapo had not asked for—and 5,082 women, on 16 and 17 July and imprisoned them in the Vélodrome d'Hiver. They were led to Drancy internment camp and subsequently crammed into box cars and shipped by rail to Auschwitz extermination camp. Most of the victims died en route due to lack of food or water. Survivors were sent to the gas chambers. This action alone represented more than a quarter of the 42,000 French Jews sent to concentration camps in 1942, of whom only 811 would survive the war. Although the Nazis had directed the action, French police authorities vigorously participated without resisting.[86]
1941 Paris synagogue attacks
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Organized plunder
Nazi Germany plundered cultural property in Germany and from all the territories they occcupied, targeting Jewish property in particular. Several organizations were created expressly for the purpose of looting books, paintings, and other cultural artefacts.[87]
Rosenberg Taskforce
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In 1940, an organization known as the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce was formed, headed by Template:Ill de. The first operating unit, called the Dienststelle Westen (Western Agency), was located in Paris. Its original purpose was to collect Jewish and Freemasonic books and documents, either for destruction or for removal to Germany for further "study". However, in late 1940 Hermann Göring issued an order the ERR to seize "Jewish" art collections and other objects. The war loot had to be collected in a central place in Paris, the Museum Jeu de Paume, where art historians and other personnel inventoried the loot before sending it to Germany. Göring also ordered the loot to be divided between Hitler and himself. Göring traveled to Paris twenty times to Paris between 1940 and 1942. At the Jeu de Paume, art dealer Bruno Lohse staged 20 expositions of the newly looted art objects especially for Göring, who selected at least 594 pieces for his collection.[88] Göring made Lohse his liaison-officer and installed him in the ERR in March 1941 as the deputy leader of this unit. Items which Hitler and Göring did not want were made available to other Nazi leaders. Under Rosenberg and Göring's leadership, the ERR seized 21,903 art objects from German-occupied countries.[89]
Post-World War II
Finaly Affair
The Finaly Affair was a legal dispute over the custody of two Jewish children, Robert and Gerald Finaly, whose parents were murdered in The Holocaust. The fight for custody resulted in kidnapping charges against Augustine Brun, the children's war-time guardian who defied court orders numerous times to surrender the boys to their surviving relatives after World War II, and who had them secretly baptized. Catholic clergy members were also charged with kidnapping after hiding the children under false names in Catholic institutions in France, in Switzerland, and at one point walking the boys over the Pyrenees to hide them in San Sebastian in Spain. After eight years of legal battles and resistance, the boys were finally recovered and turned over to a surviving aunt in 1953. They left for Israel in July 1953.[90]
In March of 2020, the Vatican unsealed the World War II-era records of Pope Pius XII. The documents showed that the Vatican played a role in keeping the boys hidden and initially insisted that the boys remain Catholic when returned to their family.[91] As of September 2020[update], Robert Finaly is a doctor and Gerald Finaly, who now goes by Gad, is an engineer. Both brothers reside in Israel.[90][92] Archives of the papacy of Pius XII opened in 2020 revealed the extent of the hidden role played by the Vatican in the affair, extending to the Holy Office and Pope Pius himself. Documents showed the continued adherence and advocacy of the Church of the impermissibility of releasing baptized children of other faiths to their families, even if the baptisms were performed in secret, and without the knowledge of, or against the wishes of the family.[93]
Algeria
Background
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There is evidence of Jewish settlements in Algeria since at least the Roman period (Mauretania Caesariensis).[94] In the 7th century, Jewish settlements in North Africa were reinforced by Jewish immigrants that came to North Africa after fleeing from the persecutions of the Visigothic king Sisebut[95] and his successors. They escaped to the Maghreb and settled in the Byzantine Empire. Later many Sephardic Jews were forced to take refuge in Algeria from the persecutions in Spain in 1391 and the Spanish Inquisition in 1492.[96] They thronged to the ports of North Africa, and mingled with native Jewish people. In the 16th century there were large Jewish communities in places such as Oran, Bejaïa and Algiers. By 1830, the Algerian Jewish population numbered 15,000, mostly congregated in the coastal area, with about 6,500 \in Algiers, where they made up a fifth of the population.[97]
The French government granted Jews, who by then numbered some 33,000,[98] French citizenship in 1870 under the Crémieux Decree[99] The decision to extend citizenship to Algerian Jews was a result of pressures from prominent members of the liberal, intellectual French Jewish community, which considered the North African Jews to be "backward" and wanted to bring them into modernity.[citation needed]
Within a generation, despite initial resistance, most Algerian Jews came to speak French rather than Arabic or Ladino, and they embraced many aspects of French culture. In embracing "Frenchness," the Algerian Jews joined the colonizers, although they were still considered "other" to the French. Although some took on more typically European occupations, "the majority of Jews were poor artisans and shopkeepers catering to a Muslim clientele."[100] Moreover, conflicts between Sephardic Jewish religious law and French law produced contention within the community. They resisted changes related to domestic issues, such as marriage.[101]
French anti-Semitism set down strong roots among the expatriate French community in Algeria, where every municipal council was controlled by anti-Semites, and newspapers were rife with xenophobic attacks on the local Jewish communities.[102] In Algiers when Émile Zola was brought to trial for his defense in an 1898 open letter, J'Accuse…!, of Alfred Dreyfus, over 158 Jewish owned shops were looted and burned and two Jews were killed, while the army stood by and refused to intervene.[103]
A Vichy law of 7 October 1940 (pub. 8 October in the JO) abrogated the Cremieux decree and denaturalized the Jewish population of Algeria.[104]
Struggle for independence
The Jewish community in Algeria had always been in a fragile position. After World War II, the Algerian Jewish community formed a number of organizations for support and safeguarding of religious institutions. The fate of the community was determined by the Algerian nationalist struggle for independence. Already in 1956 the Algerian National Liberation Front had appealed to "Algerians of Jewish origin" to choose Algerian nationality. Fears increased in 1958, when the FLN kidnapped and killed two officials of the Jewish Agency, and in 1960 with desecrations of the Great Synagogue of Algiers and the Jewish cemetery in Oran, and others were killed by the FLN.[105]
Most Algerian Jews in 1961 still hoped for a solution of partition or dual nationality that would permit a resolution of the conflict, and groups such as the Comité Juif Algérien d'Etudes Sociales attempted to straddle the question of identity. Fears increased with the increasing terrorist activity by the OAS (Organisation armée secrète) and FLN, and emigration rose rapidly in mid-1962 with 70,000 leaving for France and 5,000 opting for Israel. The French government treated Jews and non-Jewish immigrants equally, and 32,000 Jews settled in the Paris area, with many others heading to Strasbourg which already had an established community. Estimates are that 80% of Alegeria's Jewish community settled in France.[105]
For those Jews still present after Algerian independence in 1962, the situation remained tolerable for a few years, with the minister of culture addressing the congregation on Yom Kippur. But the situation worsened rapidly with the accession to power of Houari Boumédienne in 1965, with the imposition of heavy taxes and a rise in discrimation, including lack of protection from the courts, and attacks from the press in 1967, cemetries decayed, synagogues were defaced. By 1969 there were less than one thousand Jews left, aging or unwilling to leave their homes. By the 1990s, one synagogue was left; the rest were converted to mosques, and around fifty Jews remained.[105]
Assaults and desecrations
1980 Paris synagogue bombing
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On 3 October 1980, the rue Copernic synagogue in Paris, France was bombed in a terrorist attack. The attack killed four and wounded 46 people. The bombing took place in the evening near the beginning of Shabbat, during the Jewish holiday of Sim'hat Torah. It was the first deadly attack against Jewish people in France since the end of the Second World War.[106] The Federation of National and European Action (FANE) claimed responsibility,[107] but the police investigation later concluded that Palestinian nationalists were likely responsible.[108][109]
1982 Paris restaurant bombing
On 9 August 1982 the Abu Nidal Organization carried out a bombing and shooting attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris's Marais district. Two assailants threw a grenade into the dining room, then rushed in and fired machine guns.[110] They killed six people, including two Americans[111] and injured 22 others. Business Week later said it was "the heaviest toll suffered by Jews in France since World War II."[112][113] The restaurant closed in 2006 and former owner Jo Goldenberg died in 2014.[114]
Although the Abu Nidal Organization had long been suspected,[115][116] suspects from the group were only definitively identified 32 years after the attacks, in evidence given by two former Abu Nidal members granted anonymity by French judges.[117]
In December 2020 one of the suspects, Walid Abdulrahman Abou Zayed, was handed over to French police (at a Norwegian airport) and flown to France.[118][119][120] Later in December, he was being held at La Sante Prison in Paris.[121] As of March 2021, he is still in prison.[122]
Carpentras cemetery 1990
On 10 May 1990, a Jewish cemetery at Carpentras was desecrated. This led to a public uproar, and a protest demonstration in Paris attended by 200,000 persons, including French President François Mitterrand. After several years of investigation, five people, among them three former members of the extremist far-right French and European Nationalist Party confessed on 2 August 1996.[123][124] On 5 June 1990, the PNFE magazine Tribune nationaliste was banned by the French authorities.[125]
Since 2000
France has the largest population of Jews in the diaspora after the United States—an estimated 500,000–600,000 persons. Paris has the highest population, followed by Marseilles, which has 70,000 Jews, most of North African origin. Expressions of anti-semitism were seen to rise during the Six-Day War of 1967 and the French anti-Zionist campaign of the 1970s and 1980s.[126][127] Following the electoral successes achieved by the extreme right-wing National Front and an increasing denial of the Holocaust among some persons in the 1990s, surveys showed an increase in stereotypical antisemitic beliefs among the general French population.[128][129][130]
Speech and writing
Dieudonné
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Public personalities have caused controversy by their positions which they call "anti-Zionist". This is the case of comedian Dieudonné,[131][132] who was convicted of incitement to racial hatred,[133] and who, during the European elections of 2009, led an "Anti-Zionist slate"[134] along with essayist Alain Soral, president of Égalité et Réconciliation, and Yahia Gouasmi, creator of the Anti-Zionist Party.[135][136][137]
Cercle Édouard Drumont
The "Cercle Édouard Drumont" (named after the author of the antisemitic essay La France juive) was formed in 2019 to "honor" this "great man" and "nationalist" activist. For Libération journalist Pierre Plottu, this circle is close to Amitié et Action française, a dissident faction of Action française[138] directed by lawyer Elie Hatem who also organizes meetings where "the guest list is a who's who of the French anti-Semitic far right: Yvan Benedetti but also Jérôme Bourbon (from the denialist newspaper Rivarol), Alain Escada (head of the national catholics of Civitas), the Soralian Marion Sigaut, Pierre-Antoine Plaquevent (obsessed with Soros and 'the immigrant invasion'), Stéphanie Bignon (from Terre et Famille, close to Civitas), or the prince Sixte-Henri de Bourbon-Parme who is close to personalities of the rightist Rassemblement national."[139]
Attacks
Passover 2002 attacks
A series of attacks on Jewish targets in France took place in a single week in 2002, coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Passover, including at least five synagogues.[140][141] The targeted synagogues include the Or Aviv synagogue in Marseille, which burned to the ground; a synagogue in Strasbourg, where a fire was set that burned the doors and facade of the building before being doused;[142] and the firebombing of a synagogue in the Paris suburb of Le Kremlin-Bicêtre.[141]
Lyon synagogue
On 30 March 2002, a group of masked men rammed two cars through the courtyard gates of a synagogue in the Template:Ill fr neighborhood of Lyon, France, then rammed one of the cars into the prayer hall before setting the vehicles on fire and causing severe damage to the synagogue.
The attack took place at 1:00 am on a Saturday morning; the building was empty at the time. The attackers wore masks or hoods covering their faces, eyewitnesses reported seeing twelve or fifteen attackers.[143][144][140][145]
2006 murder of Ilan Halimi
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Ilan Halimi was a young Frenchman of Moroccan Jewish ancestry living in Paris with his mother and his two sisters.[146] On 21 January 2006, Halimi was kidnapped by a group calling itself the Gang of Barbarians. The kidnappers, believing that all Jews are rich, repeatedly contacted the victim's family of modest means demanding very large sums of money. [147]
After three weeks and no success in finding the captors, the family and the police stopped receiving messages from the captors. Halimi, severely tortured, burned over more than 80% of his body, was dumped unclothed and barely alive by the side of a road in Sainte-Geneviève-Des-Bois on 13 February 2006. He was found by a passerby who immediately called for an ambulance, but Halimi died from his injuries on the way to the hospital.[citation needed]
The French police were heavily criticized because they initially believed that antisemitism was not a factor in the crime.[148] The case drew national and international attention as an example of antisemitism in France.[147]
2012 Jewish day school shooting
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 secondary school, with most children between the ages of 11 to 17.
At about 8:00 am on 19 March 2012, a man rode up to the Ozar Hatorah school on a motorcycle. Dismounting, he immediately opened fire toward the schoolyard. The first victim was 30-year-old Jonathan Sandler, a rabbi and teacher at the school who was shot outside the school gates as he tried to shield his two young sons from the gunman. The gunman shot both the boys—5-year-old Arié and 3-year-old Gabriel[149]—before walking into the schoolyard, chasing people into the building.
Inside, he shot at staff, parents, and students. He chased 8-year-old Myriam Monsonego,[150] the daughter of the head teacher, into the courtyard, caught her by her hair and raised a gun to shoot her. The gun jammed at this point. He changed weapons from what the police identified as a 9mm pistol to a .45 calibre gun, and shot the girl in her temple at point-blank range.[112][151][152][153] Bryan Bijaoui, a 17-year-old[154] boy, was also shot and gravely injured.[155] The gunman retrieved his scooter and rode away.
The government was already providing continuous protection to many Jewish institutions, but it increased security and raised the terrorist warnings to the highest level. Traffic on streets in France with Jewish institutions were closed for additional security.[112] The election campaign was suspended and President Nicolas Sarkozy, as well as other candidates in the presidential elections, immediately traveled to Toulouse and the school.[156]
Supermarket siege
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On 9 January 2015, Amedy Coulibaly, who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,[157] attacked the people in a Hypercacher kosher food supermarket at Porte de Vincennes in east Paris. He killed four people, all of whom were Jewish,[158][159][160] and took several hostages.[161][162] Some media outlets claimed he had a female accomplice, speculated initially to be his common-law wife, Hayat Boumeddiene.[163]
2017 Killing of Sarah Halimi
Sarah Halimi (no relation to Ilhan Halimi) was a retired doctor and schoolteacher who was attacked and killed in her apartment on 4 April 2017. The circumstances surrounding the killing—including the fact that Halimi was the only Jewish] resident in her building, and that the assailant shouted Allahu akbar during the attack and afterward proclaimed "I killed the Shaitan"—cemented the public perception of the incident, particularly among the French Jewish community, as a stark example of antisemitism in modern France.
For several months the government and some of the media hesitated to label the killing as antisemitic, drawing criticism from public figures such as Bernard-Henri Lévy. The government eventually acknowledged an antisemitic motivation for the killing. The assailant was declared to be not criminally responsible when the judges ruled he was undergoing a psychotic episode due to cannabis consumption, as established by an independent psychiatric analysis.[164] The decision was appealed to the supreme Court of Cassation,[165] who in 2021 upheld the lower court's ruling.[166]
The killing has been compared to the murder of Mireille Knoll in the same arrondissement less than a year later, and to the murder of Ilan Halimi (no relation) eleven years earlier.[167]
Murder of Mireille Knoll
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Mireille Knoll was an 85-year-old French Jewish woman holocaust survivor who was murdered in her Paris apartment on 23 March 2018. The murder has been officially described by French authorities as an antisemitic hate crime.
Of the two alleged assailants, one was a 29-year-old neighbor of Knoll, who suffered from Parkinson's disease,[168] and had known her since he was a child, and the other, an unemployed 21-year-old. The two suspects entered the apartment and reportedly stabbed Knoll eleven times before setting her on fire.[169][170][171]
The Paris prosecutor’s office characterized the 23 March murder as a hate crime, a murder committed because of the “membership, real or supposed, of the victim of a particular religion.” The New York Times noted, "The speed with which the authorities recognized the hate-crime nature of Ms. Knoll’s murder is being seen as a reaction to the anger of France’s Jews at the official response to that earlier crime, which prosecutors took months to characterize as anti-Semitic."[172][173][174]
Gallery
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Caricature by C.Léandre (France, 1898) showing Rothschild with the world in his hands
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Map of the Estates General of 1789
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Colonial French troops, 1789
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Poster for an official anti-semitic exposition, "The Jew and France", (Bundesarchiv, 1941)
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A German sign outside a Paris restaurant announces that Jews are not admitted (Bundesarchiv, 1 September 1940)
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Jewish women were required to wear a yellow Star of David (Bundesarchiv, 1 June 1942)
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The Synagogue of Montmartre and several others were attacked and vandalized in 1941.(Bundesarchiv)
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A Jewish-owned shop in the Marais, wrecked in May 1941 (Bundesarchiv)
See also
- Antisemitic publications in France
- Antisemitism in 21st-century France
- Antisemitism in Christianity
- Catholic Church and Judaism
- Catholic Church and Nazi Germany during World War II
- French Fourth Republic
- French nationalism
- French Third Republic
- German occupation of France
- History of far-right movements in France
- History of the Jews in France
- Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting
- Law of 3 October 1940 on the Status of Jews
- Maurice Papon
- Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
- Pursuit of Nazi collaborators
- Religious antisemitism
- Rene Bousquet
- Strasbourg Cathedral bombing plot
- The Holocaust in France
- Toulouse and Montauban shootings
- Vichy anti-Jewish legislation
- Vichy Holocaust collaboration timeline
- Xavier Vallat
- Zone libre
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- ^ a b Yad Vashem [1]
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Legal position of Jews in Vichy France.—Almost immediately after the armistice, the Vichy government proclaimed its intention to deprive of their civil rights French people who are of Jewish faith or origin, and to place the Jews in the position of legal inferiority in which they find themselves in all other German-dominated countries. On October 3, 1940 (Journel Officiel of October 18), a law was published fixing the conditions under which a person is considered as being of Jewish origin. Access to all public offices, professions, journalism, executive positions in the film industry, etc. was prohibited to all such persons.
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On the preceding page, the law from the day before (3 October 1940), signed by Marshall Philip Pétain and nine of his ministers, is the 'law on the status of the Jews.' We know that those in charge of Vichy, 'complicit even before having understood the inevitable extent of their own compromise', did not wait for it to be imposed by the occupying power before enacting it.73 We also know that whereas the German ordinance of the preceding month defined Jews by 'religion', the French statute of 3 October defined them by race.74
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This ... was reflected in the drafting of the law of 2 June. In close collaboration and in perfect symbiosis with Admiral Darlan's services and the ministries concerned, the General Commission for Jewish Questions tightened the definition of a Jew (in order to escape the increased strictures of the law, "demi-Jews" had to have belonged to some religion other than Judaism before 25 June 1940) and extended the scope of prohibited occupations. Ce ... se ressent dans la rédaction de la loi du 2 juin. En étroite collaboration et en parfaite symbiose avec les services de l'amiral Darlan et les ministères concernés, le commissariat général aux Questions juives aggrave la définition du Juif (les « demi-juifs » doivent obligatoirement avoir adhéré à une religion autre que la religion juive avant le 25 juin 1940 pour échapper aux rigueurs de la loi) et étend le champ des interdictions professionnelles.
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3) A law of October 3, 1940, on the status of Jews excluded them from most public and private professions and defined Jews on the basis of racial criteria.
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"on 3 October, Vichy promulgated the 'Law Concerning the Status of Jews,' signed by Pétain and the principal members of his government.
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Further reading
- Bell, Dorian (15 April 2018). Globalizing Race: Antisemitism and Empire in French and European Culture. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-3690-8.
- Bensoussan, Georges (2018). Le nouvel antisémitisme en France [The new antisemitism in France] (in French). Albin Michel. ISBN 978-2-226-43615-3.
- Birnbaum, Pierre (1992). Anti-semitism in France: A Political History from Léon Blum to the Present. B. Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-55786-047-7.
- Chazan, Robert (18 August 1997). Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-91740-8.
- Curtis, Michael (27 January 2015). Verdict on Vichy: Power and Prejudice in the Vichy France Regime. Arcade. ISBN 978-1-62872-481-3.
- Draï, Raphaël (2001). Sous le signe de Sion: l'antisémitisme nouveau est arrivé [Under the sign of Zion] (in French). Michalon. ISBN 978-2-84186-161-3.
- Giniewski, Paul (2005). Antisionisme, le nouvel antisémitisme [Antizionism, the new antisemitism] (in French). Editions Cheminements. ISBN 978-2-84478-353-0.
- Jackson, Julian (5 March 2003). France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-162288-5.
- Jordan, William Chester (11 November 2016). The French Monarchy and the Jews: From Philip Augustus to the Last Capetians. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-1-5128-0532-1.
- Kalman, Julie (14 December 2009). Rethinking Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-89732-7.
- Lazare, Bernard (1903). Antisemitism, Its History and Causes. International library publishing Company.
- Lee, Daniel (June 2014). Pétain's Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-870715-8.
- MacShane, Denis (25 September 2008). Globalising Hatred: The New Antisemitism. Orion Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-297-85747-1.
- Mandel, Maud S. (2 August 2016). Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-17350-4.
- Marcus, Jacob R.; Saperstein, Marc (31 December 2016). The Jews in Christian Europe: A Source Book, 315-1791. Hebrew Union College Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-8123-7.
- Mehlman, Jeffrey (1983). Legacies of Anti-semitism in France. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-1178-2.
- Michael, Robert; Rosen, Philip (2007). Dictionary of Antisemitism from the Earliest Times to the Present. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5868-8.
- Michael, R. (31 March 2008). A History of Catholic Antisemitism: The Dark Side of the Church. Springer. ISBN 978-0-230-61117-7.
- Miedzian, Myriam (15 December 2006). "Anti-French Stereotypes Still Served Up". Huffpost. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
- Roberts, Sophie B. (28 December 2017). Citizenship and Antisemitism in French Colonial Algeria, 1870-1962. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-18815-0. OCLC 987711623.
- Rose, Paul Lawrence (14 July 2014). German Question/Jewish Question: Revolutionary Antisemitism in Germany from Kant to Wagner. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-6111-8.
- Rosenfeld, Alvin H. (9 December 2015). Deciphering the New Antisemitism. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01869-4.
- Samuels, Maurice (2 November 2016). The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-39932-4.
- Schor, Ralph (2005). L'antisémitisme en France dans l'entre-deux-guerres: prélude à Vichy [Antisemitism in France Between the Wars: Prelude to Vichy] (in French). Editions Complexe. ISBN 978-2-8048-0050-5.
- Shields, James (7 May 2007). The Extreme Right in France: From Pétain to Le Pen. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-86111-8.
- Sternhell, Zeev (1988). Antisemitism and the Right in France. Shazar Library, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Taguieff, Pierre-André; Camiller, Patrick (2004). Rising from the Muck: The New Anti-semitism in Europe. Ivan R. Dee. ISBN 978-1-56663-571-4.
- Trachtenberg, Joshua (1983). The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Antisemitism. Jewish Publication Society of America. ISBN 978-0-8276-0227-4.
- Weitzmann, Marc (2019). Hate: The New Brew of an Ancient Poison. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-544-64964-4.
- Winock, Michel (1998). Nationalism, Anti-semitism, and Fascism in France. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3287-1.
- Winock, Michel (2004). La France et les juifs: de 1789 à nos jours [France and the Jews: From 1789 to the Present] (in French). Seuil. ISBN 978-2-02-060954-8.
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