French Jewish intellectual and cultural life flourished through the ages, producing some of the most famous Jewish Rabbis, Philosophers, Artists, Mathematicians, and Scientists.

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Early History

• The Early Jews of France 700 - 1200
• Jewish community in Alsace and Lorraine
• History of Jews in Alsace
• Napoleon's Grand Sanhedrin

Rashi

• Rashi in Wiki
• Institut Universitaire Européen Rachi
• In the foots of Rashi - tourism in Troyes en Champagne;
• A glimpse on Rashi on YouTube

Notable French Jews

• Wikipedia List of French Jews
• Virtual Historic Tour of Jewish France
• Being Jewish in France - Film

Holocaust

• Conservatoire Historique du Camp de Drancy
• Saving the Jews of Nazi France
• Jews in France WWll
• Vichy Policy on Deportation

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Geni Projects

• Jewish Scholars of Magical Provence France
• German/Austrian Intellectual Exile in Paradise 1933-1945
• Jews of the French German Nexus - Alsace & Lorraine
• Chief Rabbis of Paris
• French Benelux Jewish Resources
• The Rashi Legacy - Kalonymos, Treves, Luria and Spira Families
• The Great Sanhedrin

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Artists

Amedeo Modigiliani

• Camille Pissarro

Writers/Composers

Marcel Proust

• Darius Milhaud
• Paul Dukas

Mathematicians

André Weil

• Paul Levy
• Benoît Mandelbrot
• Jacques Hadamard
• Laurent Schwartz

Philosophers

Simone Weil

• Emile Durkheim
• Henri Bergson

Rabbis & Scholars

Rashi - רש-י

• Yocheved bat Rashi Kalonimus
• Miriam Bat Rashi, Ben Natan Yitzchaki - מרים בת רש"י אשת ריב"ן
• Rachel bat Rashi - רחל-בת-רש-י

Politicians/Lawyers

Léon Blum (1872 - 1950) Three times Prime Minister of France

• Pierre Mendès France
• Simone Veil
• Adolphe Crémieux

Notable Personalities

Claude Lévi Strauss

• Alfred Dreyfus
• Mayer Amschel Rothschild
• André Gustave Citroën
• Marcel Dassault
• Dominique Gaston Andre Strauss-Kahn
• Michel Nostradamus