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Paris-Montreal. Different Ways of Offering Support for the « Terrible Shock » of the Death of a Child in the 1960s-1980s, by Martin MessikaJewish migration from North Africa towards France beginning in the 1950s brought along with it a major mobilization of Jewish communal institutions and in particular Jewish social service agencies. Their activities must be understood within the larger context of the evolution of social work practices. In order to bring to light these particularities, this article uses a comparative perspective. It looks as the way in which social workers from two Jewish organizations, one in Paris and one in Montreal, reacted when faced with the death of a child within a family being followed by their respective agencies. By studying the individual case files of the Comité d’Action Social Israélite de Paris and the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services in Montreal, this article explores the place of emotions in the monitoring of « clients » of these social service agencies. This case study enables us to take into account how emotions were dealt with following a period of mourning, as a dimension of social work.