Landau, Philippe-Efraïm

The French Jewish Community and the Great War - 2002.


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Even if the Jewish community (180,000 persons) was not homogeneous on the eve of World War I (almost 16% immigrants, less than 40% Algerian Israelites, and influenced by a variety of philosophical and political platforms), it nonetheless adhered to one very specific aspect of the French Republic : patriotism. When the war erupted, the Jewish community