THE JEWS OF FRANCE
Compiled by Mona Freedman Morris ©2015
465
1096-1099
1147-1149
1171
1181
1215
1236
1240
1254
1305
1315
1338-1347
1500
1648
18c
1780
1790
1806
1818
1848
1870
1881-1914
1894
1918 +
Vannes(Brittany
First Crusade
2nd Crusade
31 Jews burned at stake in Blois
Toulouse Jewish leaders had to have ears boxed on a weekly basis
Jewish property confiscated, Jews expelled from Paris, loans annulled
Jews forced to wear badge in Languedoc, Normandy, Provence
3,000 Jews killed in Anjou, Poitou resisting baptism
Jews expelled from Brittany
Jews expelled from England admitted
Jews expelled from France, property confiscated
Jews imprisoned and property confiscated
10,000 Jews expelled
Jews return
Alsace Jews killed in 25 Jewish communities
Jews in Avignon and Comtat Venasissin spared
Conversos from Portugal arrive
Chmeilnicki massacres, Ukraine and Polish Jews arrive in Alsace and Lorraine
Jews resettle in Paris. Sephardim from Bordeaux, Avignon, Comtat Venaissin settle Left Bank
Ashkenazim from Alsacee, Lorraine settle on Right Bank
500 Jews living in Paris
Sephardim given citizenship, Ashkenazi given 1791
Recognition of Judaism as a religion by Napoleon, but restricted were they could live
Jews living in Metz, Strasbourg, Colmar, Bordeaux, Paris
Damascus Affair Blood Libel
War transferred Alsace, Lorraine to German Control
25,000 Jews arrive from Europe and Ottoman Empire
Dreyfus Affair
Alsace and Lorraine returned to France
Jews arrive from North Africa, Turkey, Greece
Eastern European immigration from Ukraine and Poland
WEB SITES
GenAmi (JGS-France)
www.genami.org/en/
Jewish cemeteries in Nice, 1808 Names adoption, Synagogue Strasbourg 1898-1941,
ANCESTRY.COM $
Extensive collection of vital records, citizenship, Billion Graves
FAMILYSEARCH.org
Billion Graves Index
Jewish Genealogical Society
www.genealoj.org/New/Accueil_gb.php
Census of Alsace Lorraine 1784 Index
http://ngj.vjf.cnrs.fr/BdeD/1784/recherche_nom_1784.php
JEWISHGEN.org
www.jewishgen.org/French/
Jews of Alsace
http://judaisme.sdv.fr/
Genealogical Guide
http://judaisme.sdv.fr/genealog/guide.htm
Jews Deported from France
www.memorial-cdjc.org/index.php/en/
Villages in Alsace
www.babeloop.com/bab/affich_ring.php3?ring=399
Postcards from French areas
www.cartes-postales-anciennes.com/
1871 Paris community names
www.commune1871.org/?-Service-Historique-de-la-DefensePere-Lachaise Cemetery
www.pere-lachaise.com/perelachaise.php?lang=en