The Notion of a “Jewish Community” in France

Shmuel Trigano

1994

The use of the notion of “community” to define French Judaism is not self-evident. On the one hand, if “community” renders the medieval kahal, the concept has a long history and has engendered any number of mythical images: there are therefore reasons for seeing it as a model that might be found anywhere that Jewish life has developed. But in fact…

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Shmuel Trigano

b. 1948

Born in Blida, Algeria, Shmuel Trigano is a sociologist and professor at Paris C University Nanterre. His writings are concerned with situations faced by Jews and Muslims in France, and with the interplay of traditional Jewish and Western values. Trigano also directs several programs at the Alliance Israélite Universelle.

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