Cimetières et rites funéraires juifs dans l’Est de la France du Moyen Âge à nos jours

Of Ashkenazi tradition, Alsace and Lorraine present today more than 140 Jewish cemeteries with very specific features, especially as three departments annexed by Germany between 1871 and 1918 were not affected by the laic laws of the Third Republic. Representing the three-quarters of the Jews living...

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Main Author: Claire Decomps
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2017-12-01
Series:Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/874
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description Of Ashkenazi tradition, Alsace and Lorraine present today more than 140 Jewish cemeteries with very specific features, especially as three departments annexed by Germany between 1871 and 1918 were not affected by the laic laws of the Third Republic. Representing the three-quarters of the Jews living in France at the beginning of the Revolution, they were considered until then as a “foreign” Nation. After the emancipation, their cemeteries testify of an attempt to conciliate religious identity with integration in the national model. Over the course of the XXth century, this “franco-judaism” was questioned by the arrival of foreign Jews, and then by the Shoah.
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spellingShingle Claire Decomps
Cimetières et rites funéraires juifs dans l’Est de la France du Moyen Âge à nos jours
Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
foreigners
Jewish cemeteries
burial rituals
death
Franco-Judaïsm
title Cimetières et rites funéraires juifs dans l’Est de la France du Moyen Âge à nos jours
title_full Cimetières et rites funéraires juifs dans l’Est de la France du Moyen Âge à nos jours
title_fullStr Cimetières et rites funéraires juifs dans l’Est de la France du Moyen Âge à nos jours
title_full_unstemmed Cimetières et rites funéraires juifs dans l’Est de la France du Moyen Âge à nos jours
title_short Cimetières et rites funéraires juifs dans l’Est de la France du Moyen Âge à nos jours
title_sort cimetieres et rites funeraires juifs dans l est de la france du moyen age a nos jours
topic foreigners
Jewish cemeteries
burial rituals
death
Franco-Judaïsm
url https://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/874
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