Events
Anti-Semitic newspapers were circulated,
including Edouard Drumont’s La France Juive (1886), which became a best-seller. Jews were
blamed for the collapse of the Union Generale, a leading Catholic bank.
https://www.zeitpfeil.org/static/common/files/278/History%20of%20the%20Jews%20in%20France-1.pdfAs the perennial scapegoat, the
Jews were also blamed by many
for the Bolshevik coup d’etat of
October 1917; approximately
100,000 Jews were killed in the
anti‑Bolshevik campaigns
conducted by Ukrainians,
Poles, and Russians.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/wwi-and-the-jews/Balfour Declaration, (November 2, 1917),
https://www.britannica.com/event/Balfour-DeclarationThe Federation des
Societes Juif de France
(FSJF) was established
in 1923 to take care of
the needs of the French
Jewish community.
https://www.zeitpfeil.org/static/common/files/278/History%20of%20the%20Jews%20in%20France-1.pdfUnited States prohibited free
immigration in 1924.
https://www.zeitpfeil.org/static
/common/files/278/History%
20of%20the%20Jews%20in%
20France-1.pdfIn March 1942, the first convoy
of 1,112 Jews was deported
to concentration camps in
Poland and Germany.
https://www.zeitpfeil.org/
static/common/files/278/
History%20of%20the%20
Jews%20in%20France-1.pdfToday more than 600,000
Jews live in France, 375,000
live in Paris. There are 230
Jewish communities, including
Paris, Marseilles (70,000),
Lyons (25,000), Toulouse,
Nice and Strasbourg.
https://www.zeitpfeil.org/
static/common/files/278/
History%20of%20the%20Jews
%20in%20France-1.pdfPeriods
WW11877 to WW1End of World War 1 to Beginning of World War 2World War 2End of WW2 to PresentMore than 25,000 Jews came to
France between 1881 and 1914.
Immigrants hailed from all over
Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
Although, for many of the immigrants,
France served as a transit point rather than a final destination.
https://www.zeitpfeil.org/static/common/files/278/History%20of%20the%20Jews%20in%20France-1.pdfBetween 1942 and July 1944,
nearly 76,00 Jews were deported to concentration camps in the
East via French transit camps, only
2,500 returned.
zeitpfeil.org/static/common
/files/278/History%20of%20
the%20Jews%20in%20France-1.pdfFrance became a haven
for postwar refugees and
within 25 years its Jewish
population tripled. In
1945, 180,000 Jews were
living in France, and, by 1951,
the population reached 250,000.
https://www.zeitpfeil.org
/static/common/files/278/
History%20of%20the%20Jews
%20in%20France-1.pdf
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