Language:
French
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Archives Juives
Angaben zur Quelle:
34,2 (2001) 43-56
Keywords:
Jews
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews
;
France Emigration and immigration
Abstract:
Examines how French antisemitism affected Jewish immigrants during World War I, especially after hopes of a quick victory had dissipated in the spring of 1915. The initial enthusiasm among the 30,000 immigrants who volunteered to fight cooled off after many of them were rejected by French NGOs and those accepted were sent to the Foreign Legion. Mentions international voices raised in protest against the treatment of Jewish legionnaires. Harsh conscription orders in the summer of 1915 left Jewish immigrants with no option but to return to Russia or join the Foreign Legion. Discusses intervention on behalf of the immigrants by Emile Durkheim, who was in charge of a sub-committee within the Commission des Etrangers, created in January 1916 to oversee the military situation of the immigrants. More than 100 Russian Jews died for France in World War I. States that the immigrants integrated into French society after the war despite the discrimination they had suffered.
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