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A Jewish teenager living in hiding in Saint Bonnet d’Orcival, France, takes part in a music/theater performance to raise money on behalf of local farmers who were prisoners of warJacqueline Glicenstein, the Jewish teenager, is pictured standing in back with a guitar. Jacqueline, together with her friend Bernadette, staged the entire performance. Jacqueline Glicenstein is the daughter of Paul and Cyrla (Baron) Glicenstein, a Polish Jewish couple who had moved to France in the 1920s. Settling in Epinal (Loiret), Paul and Cyrla earned a living as itinerant merchants (marchands ambulants) selling women’s apparel and men’s socks. Jacqueline was born April 28, 1928 in Epinal. She had one sister, Josette (b. 1938). Jacqueline was raised in a secular home and never attended synagogue. Her parents sent her to a private girls school, the College des Jeunes Filles, where she was the only Jewish student in her class. In 1939 following the outbreak of World War II, Jacqueline’s father was mobilized into the French army. Her mother remained at home and tended the business. She worried about the safety of her children and decided to place Josette with a nanny named Marie Collin, who lived with her husband Auguste on the outskirts of Epinal. Jacqueline remained at home because she had to attend school. During the German invasion of France, Cyrla and the girls fled south to a small village near Vichy, but returned home after the French surrender in order to find Paul. It took several months before the family learned of his whereabouts in a POW camp in Germany. During this period Josette stayed with Marie Collin and Jacqueline visited there often. In 1941, Jacqueline was sent to a private boarding school in Dole (Jura) near the Swiss border, where she was enrolled as Jacqueline Glicen to conceal her Jewish identity. During this period her father was repatriated to France and was recuperating from his wounds at a hospital in Perpignan near the Spanish border. He contacted relatives in the U.S. to help them get papers to emigrate. His plan was that the family would meet in the town of Orange in the unoccupied zone in July 1942 and wait there until their papers arrived. Jacqueline returned home at the end of her school term expecting to depart immediately for unoccupied France. Upon her arrival she learned that her mother was in the hospital, where she was recovering from an operation, and that her father was on his way home for the first time in two and a half years to help her. During the night of July 13, a few hours after her father’s arrival, their home was raided by the Gestapo, and Paul and Jacqueline were taken to the police station. Cyrla was brought in from the hospital a few hours later, and she and Paul were taken away by car, leaving Jacqueline by herself. Jacqueline’s parents were sent to Drancy, and in September 1942, were deported to Auschwitz, where they both perished. After her parents were driven away Jacqueline was released into the custody of a neighbor, but a few days later was secretly picked up by Auguste Collins and taken to his home, where Josette was still living. After the Gestapo came looking for the girls at the end of August, the Collin decided to send them to friends who had a farm in the area. Subsequently, they went to live with their mother’s cousins, the Rosembergs, who lived on an estate in Bollene, near Orange, in the unoccupied zone. Some months after their arrival, Jacqueline received a letter from her father that had been written on the deportation train to Auschwitz and thrown out from the railcar near Epernay. A peasant girl had found it while tending her cows and sent it on to the Collins, where it arrived barely legible several months later. In November 1942, Jacqueline resumed her education at a boarding school in Avignon. In the spring of 1943 she returned home for a weekend to discover that the Rosemberg home had been raided and the family arrested. Jacqueline feared for the safety of Josette. Totally distraught, Jacqueline went to live with her Aunt Brigitte in Saint-Pourcain near Vichy. A short time later, she was taken by a former friend of her father’s to the Lassalas family who lived on a farm in the village of Saint-Bonnet-d’Orcival near Clermont-Ferrand. The family unit consisted of the widow La Meme, her son Batiste, his wife Jeanne, their child Ririe, and a half-brother simply called Lassalas. A month or two after moving in with the Lassalas’ Jacqueline received a letter from a friend of the Rosemberg’s maid saying that Josette was living with her in Arles. The Lassalas agreed to allow Josette to come live with them, and two days later, with new false papers in hand, Jacqueline went to fetch her. The girls remained in Saint-Bonnet until the liberation. After the war Jacqueline and Josette returned to Epinal. A year later they immigrated to the U.S., arriving in New York by plane on April 15, 1946.
[Source: Wolf, Jacqueline. “Take Care of Josette: A Memoir in Defense of Occupied France.” Franklin Watts, New York, 1981.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/1e20d1370b184c0126dbdefeb1a6eae5/tumblr_mo5h679cVw1rrjpupo1_500.jpg)
A Jewish teenager living in hiding in Saint Bonnet d’Orcival, France, takes part in a music/theater performance to raise money on behalf of local farmers who were prisoners of war
Jacqueline Glicenstein, the Jewish teenager, is pictured standing in back with a guitar. Jacqueline, together with her friend Bernadette, staged the entire performance. Jacqueline Glicenstein is the daughter of Paul and Cyrla (Baron) Glicenstein, a Polish Jewish couple who had moved to France in the 1920s. Settling in Epinal (Loiret), Paul and Cyrla earned a living as itinerant merchants (marchands ambulants) selling women’s apparel and men’s socks. Jacqueline was born April 28, 1928 in Epinal. She had one sister, Josette (b. 1938). Jacqueline was raised in a secular home and never attended synagogue. Her parents sent her to a private girls school, the College des Jeunes Filles, where she was the only Jewish student in her class. In 1939 following the outbreak of World War II, Jacqueline’s father was mobilized into the French army. Her mother remained at home and tended the business. She worried about the safety of her children and decided to place Josette with a nanny named Marie Collin, who lived with her husband Auguste on the outskirts of Epinal. Jacqueline remained at home because she had to attend school. During the German invasion of France, Cyrla and the girls fled south to a small village near Vichy, but returned home after the French surrender in order to find Paul. It took several months before the family learned of his whereabouts in a POW camp in Germany. During this period Josette stayed with Marie Collin and Jacqueline visited there often. In 1941, Jacqueline was sent to a private boarding school in Dole (Jura) near the Swiss border, where she was enrolled as Jacqueline Glicen to conceal her Jewish identity. During this period her father was repatriated to France and was recuperating from his wounds at a hospital in Perpignan near the Spanish border. He contacted relatives in the U.S. to help them get papers to emigrate. His plan was that the family would meet in the town of Orange in the unoccupied zone in July 1942 and wait there until their papers arrived. Jacqueline returned home at the end of her school term expecting to depart immediately for unoccupied France. Upon her arrival she learned that her mother was in the hospital, where she was recovering from an operation, and that her father was on his way home for the first time in two and a half years to help her. During the night of July 13, a few hours after her father’s arrival, their home was raided by the Gestapo, and Paul and Jacqueline were taken to the police station. Cyrla was brought in from the hospital a few hours later, and she and Paul were taken away by car, leaving Jacqueline by herself. Jacqueline’s parents were sent to Drancy, and in September 1942, were deported to Auschwitz, where they both perished. After her parents were driven away Jacqueline was released into the custody of a neighbor, but a few days later was secretly picked up by Auguste Collins and taken to his home, where Josette was still living. After the Gestapo came looking for the girls at the end of August, the Collin decided to send them to friends who had a farm in the area. Subsequently, they went to live with their mother’s cousins, the Rosembergs, who lived on an estate in Bollene, near Orange, in the unoccupied zone. Some months after their arrival, Jacqueline received a letter from her father that had been written on the deportation train to Auschwitz and thrown out from the railcar near Epernay. A peasant girl had found it while tending her cows and sent it on to the Collins, where it arrived barely legible several months later. In November 1942, Jacqueline resumed her education at a boarding school in Avignon. In the spring of 1943 she returned home for a weekend to discover that the Rosemberg home had been raided and the family arrested. Jacqueline feared for the safety of Josette. Totally distraught, Jacqueline went to live with her Aunt Brigitte in Saint-Pourcain near Vichy. A short time later, she was taken by a former friend of her father’s to the Lassalas family who lived on a farm in the village of Saint-Bonnet-d’Orcival near Clermont-Ferrand. The family unit consisted of the widow La Meme, her son Batiste, his wife Jeanne, their child Ririe, and a half-brother simply called Lassalas. A month or two after moving in with the Lassalas’ Jacqueline received a letter from a friend of the Rosemberg’s maid saying that Josette was living with her in Arles. The Lassalas agreed to allow Josette to come live with them, and two days later, with new false papers in hand, Jacqueline went to fetch her. The girls remained in Saint-Bonnet until the liberation. After the war Jacqueline and Josette returned to Epinal. A year later they immigrated to the U.S., arriving in New York by plane on April 15, 1946.[Source: Wolf, Jacqueline. “Take Care of Josette: A Memoir in Defense of Occupied France.” Franklin Watts, New York, 1981.]
A miniature from the Grandes Chroniques de France depicting the expulsion of Jews from France in 1182.
The First Crusade led to nearly a century of accusations (blood libel) against the Jews, many of whom were burned or attacked in France. Immediately after the coronation of Philip Augustus on 14 March 1181, the King ordered the Jews arrested on a Saturday, in all their synagogues, and despoiled of their money and their investments. In the following April 1182, he published an edict of expulsion, but according the Jews a delay of three months for the sale of their personal property. Immovable property, however, such as houses, fields, vines, barns, and wine-presses, he confiscated. The Jews attempted to win over the nobles to their side, but in vain. In July they were compelled to leave the royal domains of France (and not the whole kingdom); their synagogues were converted into churches. These successive measures were simply expedients to fill the royal coffers. The goods confiscated by the king were at once converted into cash.
Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (French: Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob) is a 1973 French-Italian comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Louis de Funès and Claude Giraud.
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane’s country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who’s returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert’s dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who’s about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob. (summary from imbd)
January 13, 1898: ”J’accuse” is published.
Émile Zola’s letter denouncing the French government for its anti-Semitism was directed at the president of France, Félix Faure, and it was published on the front page of future Prime Minster Georges Clemenceau’s newspaper L’Aurore for all of France to read. By this time, Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish French artillery officer who had been publicly stripped of his rank after being found guilty of treason, had spent three years on the penal colony on Devil’s Island. In that period of time, new evidence linking an entirely different figure to whatever acts Dreyfus had been charged with was exposed, kicking off a debate over anti-Semitism that split the country.
Zola’s letter was one important part of that debate; it began with this line:
Would you allow me, in my gratitude for the benevolent reception that you gave me one day, to draw the attention of your rightful glory and to tell you that your star, so happy until now, is threatened by the most shameful and most ineffaceable of blemishes?
Zola went on to describe what he called a “stain on [France]’s cheek” - the faulty case made against Alfred Dreyfus that led to his unjust conviction, the anti-Semitism of the French government, and the acquittal of the actual perpetrator of treason, whose guilt had been covered up. He made his arguments so strongly that the government would have to sue him for libel, which he knew full well; by being brought to trial, Zola would in turn force the government to reveal their weak case against Dreyfus and new evidence that might work in his favor. Zola was convicted of treason in February of 1898 but fled to England in order to escape jail time, confident in his own statement that “The truth is on the march, and nothing shall stop it.” The truth marched on, and in 1906, Dreyfus was completely exonerated, and he was even awarded the Légion d’honneur. As far as Zola’s involvement was concerned, Dreyfus’ triumph was a triumph for the modern intellectual and his or her new influence on society.
Le traître : Dégradation d’Alfred Dreyfus, dégradation dans la Cour Morlan de l’École militaire à Paris.
In 1894, the French Army’s counter-intelligence section, led by Lt. Col. Jean Conrad Sandherr, became aware that new artillery information was being passed to the German embassy in Paris by a highly placed spy likely to be posted in the French General Staff. Suspicion quickly fell upon Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who was arrested for treason on 15 October 1894. On 5 January 1895, Dreyfus was summarily convicted in a secret court martial, publicly stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment in a penal colony on Devil’s Island in French Guiana.
The abbey of Saint Denis is buying Jean de Fontenay’s land and house in Aubervillers. As he had given them as a security to two Jewish brothers Deodat and Elie, the contract was signed between the abbey and the two brothers (their signature, in hebrew, is on the back of the document)
Croisade : les pastoureaux partent en croisade
Vie et miracles de monseigneur Saint Louis Manuscrit enluminé sur parchemin (164 feuillets, 37 x 26,5 cm). Paris, Maître du Cardinal de Bourbon, vers 1482.
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In 1248, Louis IX of France went on the Seventh Crusade, but after the defeat of the crusaders, he was captured near Damietta in Egypt.
A peasant movement arose in northern France to support Louis, led by “the Master of Hungary”, apparently a very old Hungarian monk, who claimed to have been instructed by the Virgin Mary to lead the shepherds of France to the Holy Land to rescue Louis. He led up to 60,000 mostly young peasants to Paris, where he met with Louis IX’s mother, the acting regent.
The group split up after leaving the city and created disturbances in places such as Rouen, Tours and Orléans. In Amiens, and then in Bourges, they also began to attack Jews. The authorities rounded up and excommunicated the crusaders. However a group led by the Master resisted the authorities outside Bourges, resulting in the Master being killed in the ensuing skirmish.
Medallion struck in honor of the “Grand Sanhedrin” convened by Emperor Napoleon I of France.
The Grand Sanhedrin was a Jewish high court convened in Europe by Napoleon I to give legal sanction to the principles expressed by the Assembly of Notables in answer to the twelve questions submitted to it by the government.The name was chosen to imply that the Grand Sanhedrin had the authority of the original Sanhedrin that had been the main legislative and judicial body of the Jewish people in classical and late antiquity.
The Grand Sanhedrin was pretty much balls, though, by way of allowing Jews religious autonomy under Napoleon. Most of their answers to the twelve questions (whether divorce was allowed in Judaism, what is the state of Jewish marriage laws, can Jews do “real work”, is a Jew loyal to his homeland etc) were blatantly written to appease the Napoleonic government, never mind that the twelve questions themselves played into the antisemitic stereotypes of the day (Jews are disloyal, Jews are loan sharks, Jews are lazy, etc).
Yes, Jews can get divorced… if the civil authorities said it was okay. Yes, Jews still get married… only if there is a civil contract first. Yes, Jews do “real work”. And OF COURSE Jews are totally loyal to the land they were born in!
In fact, the entire Grand Sanhedrin was a gross Napoleonic attempt to help the poor denigrated Jewish nation regain its former glory! Who better to do this than the Great Napoleon: Ruler of Europe, Unifying Force of France? When those poor Jews let themselves slip so low into usury, who would they turn to? Napoleon!
Though the Napoleonic government found the Sanhedrin’s report satisfactory, Napoleon himself issued a decree limiting the rights of the Jews anyways. It actually took away Jewish autonomy almost completely, taking Jewish ritual decisions from the Jewish communities and handing them off to the state.
Napoleon used the Sanhedrin’s own findings, themselves a futile attempt to just show the goyim that the Jews could be capable members of a larger society instead of the seditious state-within-a-state as the Jewish community had long been depicted, as justification for this. The members of the Sandhedrin, realizing they’d been duped into creating their own bondage, later tried to protest the decree with no success.
OP would know this if they had read the rest of the Wikipedia article they copypasta’d from. Or if they knew French-Jewish history.
OP is just glad for your input.
Medallion struck in honor of the “Grand Sanhedrin” convened by Emperor Napoleon I of France.
The Grand Sanhedrin was a Jewish high court convened in Europe by Napoleon I to give legal sanction to the principles expressed by the Assembly of Notables in answer to the twelve questions submitted to it by the government.The name was chosen to imply that the Grand Sanhedrin had the authority of the original Sanhedrin that had been the main legislative and judicial body of the Jewish people in classical and late antiquity.
