{"id":16678,"date":"2024-06-17T10:11:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/israelites-in-france\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:05:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:05:57","slug":"israelites-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/israelites-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Israelites in France"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Isra\u00e9lite: A French Jew of long-standing. The term came into use following the emancipation of the Jews by the Constituent Assembly that emerged from the French Revolution on September 27, 1791. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Historically, the noun \u201cIsraelite\u201d refers to the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Israel, which existed in the Near East before the Common Era. The word appears in monotheistic religious texts. <\/div>

In everyday language, however, the word \u201cJew\u201d is used to refer to followers of Judaism who are organized into communities that face discrimination.<\/p>

The French Revolution granted Jews full citizenship and helped facilitate their rapid integration into society.<\/p>

Whether used as a noun or an adjective, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the term \u201cIsraelite\u201d reemerged to refer to emancipated Jews who were citizens. It was then adopted into everyday vocabulary and by French institutions\u2014both religious and social\u2014such as, for example, the \u201cAlliance Isra\u00e9lite Universelle\u201d or \u201cLes \u00c9claireurs Isra\u00e9lites de France.\u201d The term \u201cIsraelite\u201d was intended to be free of the negative connotations attached to the word \u201cJew\u201d by centuries of prejudice and stigmatization. <\/p>

During World War II, a semantic shift took place with the enactment of genocidal anti-Jewish laws that targeted both \u201cJews\u201d of French origin (the \u201cIsraelites\u201d) and \u201cJews\u201d of foreign origin. According to Robert Badinter, \u201cthe 1940 statute claimed a conceptual victim: it killed off the French Israelite, and the Jew took its place.\u201d <\/p>

Although it is still associated with certain institutions, the term \u201cIsraelite\u201d has fallen out of use.<\/p>

From now on, the term \u201cJew\u201d is used, regardless of whether the person in question is of French origin or not.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Reference:<\/strong>– Cabanel, Patrick, and Chantal Bordes-Benayoun, 2005, *A Model of Integration: Jews and Israelites in France and Europe*<\/em>(19th\u201320th Centuries), Berg-International.– Adam Rayski, (1992), The Choice of the Jews Under Vichy<\/em>, La D\u00e9couverte.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Isra\u00e9lite: A French Jew of long-standing. The term came into use following the emancipation of the Jews by the Constituent Assembly that emerged from the French Revolution on September 27, 1791. Historically, the noun \u201cIsraelite\u201d refers to the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Israel, which existed in the Near East before the Common Era. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"salle":[162],"source":[],"zone-geo":[],"class_list":["post-16678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","salle-1-1-the-jewish-presence-in-france-in-the-early-20th-century-french-jews-and-jewish-immigrants-from-eastern-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16679,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16678\/revisions\/16679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16678"},{"taxonomy":"salle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/salle?post=16678"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=16678"},{"taxonomy":"zone-geo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zone-geo?post=16678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}