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“Here is buried the body of Sieur Salomon de Perpignan, one of the founders of the Free Royal Drawing School established in the year 1767 of the glorious reign of Louis XV in the city of Paris…Died 22 February 1781”. These are the words on one of the oldest tomb in Paris’s Jewish cemetery. They give an idea of the social importance acquired by the ...
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44, rue de Flandres, 75019 Paris
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In addition to its architecture and activities, the (or Palais Garnier) is notable for its extraordinary ceiling painted by Marc Chagall in 1964. Not far from here, in a room at Hôtel de Castille (37 rue Cambon), Theodor Herzl wrote The Jewish State. This was the founding work of political Zionism, which bore fruit some fifty years later in the proclamation of the State of Israel. is ...
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28, rue Buffault, 75009 Paris +33 (0)1 49 70 70 00 www.buffault.net
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44, rue de la Victoire, 75009 Paris Tel : +33 1 40 82 26 73 www.lavictoire.org
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Place de l’opéra, 75009 Paris www.operadeparis.fr
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the legendary bohemia of Montparnasse included many Russians Jewish painters who had fled the anti-Semitic pogroms of the day. Among them were Soutine, Chagall, and Zadkine. Others, such as Modigliani, were simply attracted by the city’s prestige and contributed to the tremendous creative effervescence of the day. These inspired individuals, ...
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14, rue Chasseloup Laubat, 75015 Paris Tel : +33 1 42 73 36 29
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Place Pierre Lafue, 75006 Paris
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3, boulevard Edgar Quinet, 75014 Paris 33 (0)1 44 10 86 50
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21 bis, rue des Tournelles, 75004 Paris 33 (0)1 42 74 32 80 https://synatournelles.fr/
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71, rue du Temple, 75004 Paris 33 (0)1 53 01 86 53 www.mahj.org
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27, rue des Rosiers, 75004 Paris 33 (0)1 42 72 78 91 La boutique jaune
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22, rue des Ecouffes, 75004 Paris 33 (0)1 42 74 83 58
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In the eighteenth century, the area around the Place Saint Paul was known as “the old Jewry”. Until the first years of the twentieth century, the square itself bore the name Place des Juifs. The narrow streets here are best explored on a Sunday morning, when everyday Jewish life has resumed after the Shabbat. Rue Pavée is a few yards from the Saint Paul métro station. This is the ...
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The sculptures on the Saint Anne portal of offer one of the most moving testimonies we have to medieval Judaism. The frieze in question, just above the doorway, dates from the late twelfth century. It represents the Virgin’s mother, Saint Anne, meeting her future husband, Saint Joachim. The unknown artist used Parisian Jews as his models in order to represent these early ...
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6 place Paul Painlevé, 75005 Paris + 33 (0)1 53 73 78 16 http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/
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6, parvis Notre-Dame – Place Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris +33 (0)1 42 34 56 10 http://www.notredamedeparis.fr/
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In 1182, King Philippe Auguste decided to expel the Jews from the capital. Synagogues were converted into churches and building owned by Jews were sold, with the proceeds going to the Crown. The sovereign used the sums thus amassed to build the keep of the castle at Vincennes and to put a wall around the nearby woods. Within Paris itself he built a market in the now deserted Champeaux quarter ...
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The history of Jewish communities in France is characterised by a remarkable diversity, both historically and regionally. It would be futile to look for a coherent identity or shared experiences that would link the communities that were "taxed to the hilt" by the monarchy in the heartlands of the kingdom (Paris, Rouen) to the "rich hours" of the Sephardim in the Comtat Venaissin (Carpentras, ...
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The excavations at Ostia, once the great imperial port of ancient Rome, have revealed the remains of an antique synagogue whose columns support capitals adorned with menorot, the traditional seven-arm candelabra of the Jews. Constructed toward the middle of the first century, perhaps even before the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, the synagogue attests to the more than 2000 of Jewish ...
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