Jews have lived in France since Roman times, and since the French Revolution (and Emancipation) have contributed to all aspects of French culture and society. A significant number perished in the Holocaust, deported to Nazi death camps by the French Vichy government. After the war, France served as a haven for Jewish refugees, and an influx of immigration (mostly of Sephardi Jews from North Africa) saw the Jewish population triple to around 600,000, making it the largest Jewish community in Western Europe at the present time. Main article: List of Jews. ... Main article: List of Jews. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Many of the Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula during the Spanish Inquisition settled in the Ottoman Empire, leaving large Sephardic communities in South-East Europe: mainly in Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and Bosnia and Herzegovina (though the latter in particular also had a large Ashkenazi population). ... Apart from France, established Jewish populations exist in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... Here is a list of some prominent (non Latin-) Caribbean Jews, arranged by country of origin. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Since Antiquity, a number of Jewish communities have been established in many parts of Asia migrating or fleeing eastward from their place of origin in Mesopotamia. ... For other uses, see Roman Empire (disambiguation). ... The French Revolution (1789–1815) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on... Dates of Jewish emancipation. ... “Shoah” redirects here. ... Nazism in history Nazi ideology Nazism and race Outside Germany Related subjects Lists Politics Portal         Nazism or National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), refers primarily to the ideology and practices of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party, German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. ... Majdanek - crematorium Extermination camp (German Vernichtungslager) was the term applied to a group of camps set up by Nazi Germany during World War II for the express purpose of killing the Jews of Europe, although members of some other groups whom the Nazis wished to exterminate, such as Roma (Gypsies... Motto Travail, famille, patrie French: Unoccupied zone of Vichy France (until November 1942) Capital Vichy Capital-in-exile Sigmaringen (1944-1945) Language(s) French Religion Roman Catholic Government Dictatorship Chief of state  - 1940 — 1944 Philippe Pétain President of the Council  - 1940 — 1942 Philippe Pétain  - 1942 — 1944 Pierre Laval... What is Refugees? Refugees is a simple internet community that was created as a homeland and haven for the members of the message board MegaMassMedia. ... Sephardim (ספרדי, Standard Hebrew SÉ™fardi, Tiberian Hebrew ardî; plural Sephardim: ספרדים, Standard Hebrew Sfaradim, Tiberian Hebrew ) are a subgroup of Jews, generally defined in contrast to Ashkenazim and/or . ...  Northern Africa (UN subregion)  geographic, including above North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Africa. ... A current understanding of Western Europe. ...

The following is a list of some prominent Jews and people of Jewish origins (not all of them practice, or practiced, the Jewish religion) who were born in, or are very strongly associated with, France.

Historical figures

Activists

• René Cassin (1887 - 1976) drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, won Nobel Peace Prize (1968)^[1]
• Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1945 - ) student leader and German Green MEP^[2]
• Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer ^[1]
• Bernard Kouchner (1939 - ) politician, founder of Médecins Sans Frontières^[3]
• Alain Krivine (1941 - ) student leader and Trotskyist MEP^[4]
• André Spire (1868 - 1966) lawyer, journalist, poet, Jewish society and French Zionism leader^[5]

Memorial for Cassin in Forbach/France René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887 – 20 February 1976) was a French jurist and judge. ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is an advisory declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/217, 10 December 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris). ... Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Ash Wednesday 2004 at Biberach/Riss Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (born Montauban, France, April 4, 1945) is a European politician and was a leader of the student protesters during the May 1968 riots in France. ... Lewis Goldsmith (c. ... Bernard Kouchner (born November 1, 1939 in Avignon) is a French politician, diplomat, and doctor. ... Médecins Sans Frontières logo Médecins Sans Frontières ( ) (English: Doctors Without Borders, its official name in the United States) is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic disease. ... Alain Krivine (born 10 July 1941 in Paris) is a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. ... André Spire, French poet, writer, and Zionist activist. ...

Clergymen

• Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger (1926 - 2007) former Catholic archbishop of Paris and cardinal^[6]

Jean-Marie Lustiger (French pronunciation: ; September 17, 1926 – August 5, 2007)[1] [2] was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. ... The archbishop of Paris is one of twenty-three archbishops in France. ... For other uses, see Cardinal (disambiguation). ...

Military

• Affiche Rouge - French Resistance group, mostly Jewish members
• Denise Bloch (1915 - 1945) WWII SOE spy^[7]
• Nissim de Camondo (1892 - 1917) pilot in WWI^[8]
• Alfred Dreyfus (1859 - 1935) military officer^[9]

The Affiche Rouge. ... Denise Madeleine Bloch, born in 1915 in France - died February 5, 1945 in Ravensbrück, Germany, was a heroine of World War II. From a Jewish family, by the middle of 1942 in occupied France they were being rounded up by the Gestapo. ... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), sometimes referred to as the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organization initiated by Winston Churchill and Hugh Dalton in July 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... Béatrice de Camondo and brother Lieutenant Nissim de Camondo in 1916 Nissim de Camondo (1892 - 1917) was a French banker. ... Alfred Dreyfus in an army uniform. ...

Politicians

• Robert Badinter (1928 - ) Justice minister, 1981-6; abolished the death penalty in France^[10]
• Léon Blum (1872 - 1950) Prime Minister 1936-7, 1938, 1946-7^[11]
• Adolphe Crémieux (1796 - 1880) Justice minister, 1848, 1870-1^[12]
• Laurent Fabius (1946 - ) Prime Minister, 1984-6^[13]
• Louis-Lucien Klotz (1868 - 1930) journalist and politician; Minister of Finance during World War I^[14]
• Bernard Kouchner (1939 - ) politician and doctor^[15]
• Georges Mandel (1885 - 1944) Interior minister, 1939^[16]
• Pierre Mendès-France (1907 - 1982) Prime Minister, 1954-5; withdrew from Indochina^[17]
• Jules Moch (1893 - 1985) Transport minister, 1945-7; Interior minister, 1947-50; Defense minister, 1950-1^[18]
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949 - ) Finance minister, 1997-9^[19]
• Simone Veil (1927 - ) Health minister, 1974-6; legalized abortion, President of the European Parliament 1979-82^[20]

Robert Badinter during a demonstration against the death penalty in Paris, on February 3rd, 2007 Robert Badinter (born March 30, 1928) is a high-profile French criminal lawyer, university professor and politician mainly known for his struggle against the death penalty. ... Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ... Léon Blum Léon Blum (9 April 1872 - 30 March 1950), was the Prime Minister of France three times: from 1936 to 1937, for one month in 1938, and from December 1946 to January 1947. ... Isaac Moïse Crémieux [known as Adolphe] (1796 - February 10, 1880), French statesman, was born at Nîmes, of a rich Jewish family. ... Laurent Fabius (born 20 August 1946) is a former Socialist Prime Minister of France. ... Louis-Lucien Klotz (January 11, 1868 – June 15, 1930) was a French journalist and politician. ... Bernard Kouchner (born November 1, 1939 in Avignon) is a French politician, diplomat, and doctor. ... Georges Mandel was the adopted name of Louis George Rothschild (his family was not related to the famous banking dynasty). ... Pierre Mendès France Pierre Mendès France (Paris, 11 January 1907 - 18 October 1982), French politician, was born in Paris, into a family of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin. ... Flag Capital Hanoi Language(s) French Political structure Federation Historical era New Imperialism  - Addition of Laos 1893, 1887  - Vietnamese Declaration of Independence September 2, 1945  - Independence of Laos July 19, 1949  - Independence of Cambodia November 9, 1953  - Recognized Independence of Vietnam 1954, 1954 Area  - 1945 750,000 km² Currency French... Jules Moch , a French politician, was born in Paris on March 15, 1893 and died on August 1, 1985 in Cabris (Alpes-Maritimes). ... Dominique Strauss-Kahn (born 25 April 1949 in Neuilly-sur-Seine; often referred to as DSK) is a French economist, lawyer, and politician, member of the social-democrat Socialist Party (PS). ... Simone Veil Simone Veil (born Simone Annie Jacob, July 13, 1927) is a French lawyer and politician who currently serves as a member of the Constitutional Council of France. ...

Rabbis

• Rashi (1040-1105) famed as the author of the first comprehensive commentaries on the Talmud
• David Feuerwerker (1912-1980) author of the classic work L'Emancipation des Juifs en France. De l'Ancien Régime à la fin du Second Empire. Albin Michel: Paris, 1976 ISBN 2-226-00316-9

A 16th-century depiction of Rashi Note: For the astrological concept, see Rashi - the signs. ... The Talmud (Hebrew: ) is a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, customs, and history. ... David Feuerwerker, a French grand rabbi and professor of history, was born on October 2, 1912, at 11 Rue du Mont-Blanc, in Geneva, Switzerland, the son of Jacob Feuerwerker and Regina Neufeld. ...

Other

• Ilan Halimi, murder victim^[21]

Ilan Halimi (1982? - 13 February 2006) was a young French Jew of Moroccan descent kidnapped on 21 January 2006, by a gang . ...

Academic figures

Scientists

• Anatole Abragam (1914 - ) Russian-born physicist^[22]
• Liliane Ackermann (1938-2007) microbiologist
• Hippolyte Bernheim (1840 - 1919) hypnosis pioneer^[23]
• Maurice Block (1816 - 1901) statistician ^[2]
• Georges Charpak, (1924 - ), physicist, Nobel Prize (1992)
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1933 - ) physicist, Nobel Prize (1997)^[24]
• Jacques Hadamard (1865 - 1963) mathematician^[25]
• François Jacob (1920 - ) microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1965)^[26]
• Gabriel Lippmann (1845 - 1921) physicist, Nobel Prize (1908)^[27]
• Andre Michael Lwoff (1902 - 1994) microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1965)^[28]
• Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899-1983) mathematician
• Benoît B. Mandelbrot (1924- ), father of fractal geometry
• Henri Moissan (1852 - 1907) chemist, Nobel Prize (1906) (half Jewish)^[29]
• Alfred-Joseph Naquet (1834-1916)chemist and politician; promoter of french divorce law
• Olinde Rodrigues (1795 - 1851) mathematician & social reformer^[30]
• Laurent Schwartz (1915 - 2002) mathematician, Fields Medal (1950)^[31]
• André Weil (1906 - 1998) mathematician, Wolf Prize (1979)^[32]

Anatole Abragam (born December 15, 1914) is a French physicist who wrote Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and has made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. ... Liliane Aimee Ackermann (nee Weil) (1938-2007) was a French Jewish Community pioneer, leader, writer, and lecturer. ... Hippolyte Bernheim (1837 - 1919) was a French physician and neurologist; born at Mülhausen, Alsace. ... Maurice Block, (February 18, 1816, Berlin - 1901; German: Moritz Block) was a German-French statistician and economist. ... Georges Charpak (born August 1, 1924) is a Polish-French physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics winner. ... Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born April 1, 1933) is a French physicist working at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, where he has also studied physics. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... François Jacob (born June 17, 1920 in Nancy, France) is a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through feedback on transcription. ... Gabriel Jonas Lippmann (August 16, 1845 – July 13, 1921) was a Franco-Luxembourgian physicist and inventor. ... Andre Michael Lwoff (1902 - 1994) was a French microbiologist. ... Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899 – 1983) was a French mathematician, from a Polish-Lithuanian Jewish background. ... Benoît Mandelbrot in 2006 Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born November 20, 1924) is a French mathematician, best known as the father of fractal geometry. Benoît Mandelbrot was born in Poland, but his family moved to France when he was a child; he is a French citizen and was... Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan (September 28, 1852 – February 20, 1907) was a French chemist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. ... Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before the death of either spouse. ... Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues (born 1794 in Bordeaux, died 1851 in Paris), more commonly known as Olinde Rodrigues, was a French mathematician and social reformer. ... Laurent Schwartz (5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002 in Paris) was a French mathematician. ... André Weil (May 6, 1906 - August 6, 1998) (pronounced [1]) was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, whether measured by his research work, its influence on future work, exposition or breadth. ...

Social scientists

• Albert Aftalion, Bulgarian-born French economist ^[3]
• Raymond Aron (1905 - 1983) sociologist^[33]
• Robert Aron (1898-1975) historian
• Julien Benda (1867 - 1956) philosopher & novelist^[34]
• Berachyah (12th or 13th century) philosopher^[35]
• Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941) philosopher, Nobel Prize (1927)^[36]
• Marc Bloch (1886 - 1944) historian & Resistance leader^[37]
• Léon Brunschvicg (1869 - 1944) philosopher^[38]
• Hélène Cixous (1937 - ) feminist critic^[39]
• Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004) philosopher^[40]
• Émile Durkheim (1858 - 1917) sociologist^[41]
• Alain Finkielkraut (1949 - ) essayist^[42]
• Georges Friedmann (1902-1977) sociologist
• Gersonides (1288 - 1344) philosopher^[43]
• André Glucksmann (1937 - ) philosopher^[44]
• Jean Gottmann (1915 - 1994) geographer ^[4]
• Robert Hertz (1881 - 1915) sociologist^[45]
• Emmanuel Lévinas (1906 - 1995) philosopher^[46]
• Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 - ) anthropologist^[47]
• Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948 - ) philosopher^[48]
• Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857 - 1939) philosopher & anthropologist^[49]
• Gabriel Marcel (1889 - 1973) philosopher^[50]
• Marcel Mauss (1872 - 1950) sociologist^[51]
• Edgar Morin (1921- ) sociologist
• Jacob Rodrigues Pereira (1715 - 1780) first to teach the deaf^[52]
• Léon Poliakov (1910 - 1997) historian
• Rashi (1040 - 1105) religious commentator^[53]
• Maxime Rodinson (1915 - 2004) historian^[54]
• George Steiner (1929 - ) literary critic^[55]
• Jean Wahl (1888-1974) philosopher
• Simone Weil (1909 - 1943) philosopher & mystic^[56]

Albert Abram Aftalion (October 21, 1874, Rousse, Bulgaria – July 12, 1956) was a French Jewish economist. ... Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron (March 14, 1905 — October 17, 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist. ... Robert Aron (May 25, 1898 - April 19, 1975) was a French writer. ... Julien Benda (December 26, 1867 - June 7, 1956) was a French philosopher and novelist. ... Berachyah (c. ... Henri-Louis Bergson (October 18, 1859–January 4, 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century. ... Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (July 6, 1886 – June 16, 1944) was a French historian of medieval France in the period between the First and Second World Wars, and a founder of the Annales School. ... Léon Brunschvicq (commonly spelled Brunschvicg, 1869–1944) was a French Idealist philosopher. ... Hélène Cixous (born June 5, 1937) is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. ... Jacques Derrida (IPA: in French [1], in English ) (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Émile Durkheim Émile Durkheim (IPA: ; April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist whose contributions were instrumental in the formation of sociology and anthropology. ... Alain Finkielkraut (b. ... Georges Philippe Friedmann (Paris, 1902- 1977), French Sociologist. ... Levi ben Gershon (Levi son of Gerson), better known as Gersonides or the Ralbag (1288-1344), was a famous rabbi, philosopher, mathematician and Talmudic commentator. ... André Glucksmann, French philosopher and writer. ... Jean Gottmann (October 10, 1915 – February 28, 1994) was a French geographer who was most widely known for coining the term megalopolis to describe the condition of the Boston-Washington corridor. ... Robert Hertz (1881-1915) was a French sociologist whose life was cut tragically short when he was killed in WWI. Hertz was a student at the École Normale Supérieure, from which he agregated in philosophy in 1904, finishing first in his class. ... Emmanuel Lévinas (IPA: , January 12, 1906 Kaunas, Lithuania - December 25, 1995 Paris) was a French philosopher and Talmudic commentator. ... This article is about the anthropologist. ... Bernard-Henri Lévy (born November 5, 1948 in Béni-Saf, Algeria) is a French intellectual and businessman. ... Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857-1939) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and ethnographer, whose primary field of study involved primitive mentality. ... Gabriel Honoré Marcel (December 7, 1889 Paris – October 8, 1973 Paris) was a French philosopher, a leading Christian existentialist, and the author of about 30 plays. ... Marcel Mauss (May 10, 1872 – February 10, 1950) was a French sociologist best known for his role in elaborating on and securing the legacy of his uncle Émile Durkheim and the Année Sociologique. ... Edgar Morin is a French philosopher and sociobiologist who was born in Paris on July 8, 1921 under his original name Edgar Nahoum. ... Jacob Rodrigues Pereira (1715-1780) was born in the village of Peniche, Portugal, from a Portuguese-Jewish family. ... Léon Poliakov (Russian: ; 1910-1997) was a historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. ... A 16th-century depiction of Rashi Note: For the astrological concept, see Rashi - the signs. ... Maxime Rodinson (26 January 1915–23 May 2004) was a French Marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist. ... (Francis) George Steiner, a prominent literary critic, was born in Paris, France, on April 23, 1929. ... Jean André Wahl (May 15, 1888 - 1974) was a French philosopher. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Cultural figures

Artists

• Christian Boltanski (1944 - ) photographer, sculptor and installation artist^[57]
• Claude Cahun (1894 - 1954) photographer^[58]
• André François (1915 - 2005) cartoonist^[59]
• Michel Kikoine (1892 - 1968) painter^[60]
• Moise Kisling (1891 - 1953) Polish-born painter^[61]
• Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903) painter (half Jewish)^[62]
• Joann Sfar (1971 - ) cartoonist^[63]
• Chaim Soutine (1893 - 1943) Belarusian-born painter^[64]
• Pauline Trigère (1909 - 2002) fashion designer^[65]
• Ossip Zadkine (1890 - 1967) sculptor (half Jewish)^[66]

Christian Boltanski is a French photographer, sculptor and installation artist (although he refers to himself as a painter, with regard to his concerns in all media). ... Claude Cahun (25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French photographer and writer. ... André François (November 9, 1915 – April 11, 2005) was a French cartoonist. ... Michel Kikoine born May 31, 1892 in Rechytsa, Belarus - died November 4, 1968 in Cannes, France, was a painter. ... Moise Kisling (January 22, 1891 - April 29, 1953) was a Polish painter. ... The garden of Pontoise, painted 1875. ... Joann Sfar Joann Sfar (pronounced /ʒoan sfaʁ/), born on August 28, 1971 in France as the son of Jewish parents (an Ashkenazi mother and a Sephardic father), is one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. ... Chaim Soutine (1893 – August 9, 1943) was an expressionist painter. ... Pauline Trigère (1909 - 2002) was a French-born fashion designer, known for her crisp, tailored cuts and innovative ideas. ... Ossip Zadkine (July 14, 1890 – November 25, 1967) was an Russian Jewish artist and sculptor. ...

Film and stage

• Anouk Aimée (1932 - ) actress^[5]
• Alexandre Aja (1978 - ) director (Haute Tension)^[67]
• Arthur (born Jacques Essebag) TV productor, TV Host, humorist, actor (1966 - ) ^[68]
• Richard Anconina^[6] (1953 - ) actor^[69]
• Yvan Attal (1965-) filmmaker^[70]
• Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911 - 2001) actor^[7]
• Elie Kakou (1960 - 1999) humorist, actor French wikipedia
• Emmanuelle Béart (1963 - ) actress [71]
• Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923) world-famous stage actress^[72]
• Michel Boujenah (1952 - ) actor, productor, director^[73]
• Alain Chabat (1958 - ) actor, humorist, director^[74]
• Sami Frey (1937-)A Famous stag actor, director,movie actor
• ^{David Charvet (1972 - ) French-born actor/singer (Baywatch)[75]}
• Elie Chouraqui (1953- ) director, productor, scripwriter, actor^[76]
• Marcel Dalio (1900 - 1983) actor^[77]
• Gerard Darmon (1948 - ) actor, singer^[78]
• Arié Elmaleh (1975 - ) actor, brother of Gad^[79]
• Gad Elmaleh (1971 - ) humorist, actor, singer brother of Arié^[80]
• Daniel Emilfork (1924 - 2006) actor^[81]
• Anna Held (1872 - 1918) actress^[82]
• Agnès Jaoui (1964 - ) director & actress^[83]
• Marin Karmitz (1938 - ) producer^[84]
• Elie Kakou (1960 - 1999) humorist, actor^[85]
• Claude Lanzmann (1925-) filmmaker^[86]
• Claude Lelouch (1937-) director^[87]
• Marcel Marceau (1923 - 2007) mime artist^[88]
• Jean-Pierre Melville (1917 - 1973) film director and screenwriter^[89]
• Raphael Nadjari (1971-) director
• Gérard Oury (1919-2006) director
• Rachel (1821 - 1858) stage actress^[90]
• Alexandra Rosenfeld (1986 - ) Miss France 2006^[91]
• Maurice Ronet (1927-1983) actor, director, writer
• Ida Rubinstein (1885 - 1960) Belle Epoque icon^[92]
• Elie Semoun (1963 - ) humorist, actor, singer^[93]
• Michael Vartan (1968 - ) actor^[94]
• William Wyler (1902 - 1981) director^[95]
• Elsa Zylberstein (1968 - ) actress

Anouk Aimée (born April 27, 1932) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning French film actress. ... Alexandre Aja (b. ... Yvan Attal (born January 4, 1965) is a French actor and director. ... Jean-Pierre Aumont (January 5, 1911 – January 29, 2001) was a French actor. ... Emmanuelle Béart at Cannes in 2000 Emmanuelle Béart (born August 14, 1963) is a French actress. ... Sarah Bernhardt (October 23, 1844 – March 26, 1923) was a French stage actress. ... Alain Chabat (born November 24, 1958 in Oran, Algeria) is a French actor who appeared in La Cité de la peur, The Taste of Others and The Science of Sleep. ... Sami Frey (born October 13, 1937) is a French actor. ... Charvet in Baywatch David Charvet (born David Faranck Guez on May 15, 1972 in Lyon, France) is an actor. ... Élie Chouraqui (born July 3, 1950) is a French film director and scriptwriter. ... Marcel Dalio (17 July 1900 in Paris, France – 20 November 1983 in Paris) was a French character actor. ... Gad Elmaleh (born April 19, 1971, Casablanca, Morocco) is a Moroccan Jewish one man show humorist and actor who lives in France. ... Daniel Emilfork is a French stage and movie actor of Russian and Jewish ascent. ... Helene Anna Held (March 8, 1872 – August 12, 1918) was a Polish-born stage performer, most often associated with impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, her common-law husband. ... Agnès Jaoui (born October 19, 1964 in Antony, France) is a French screenwriter, film director and actress of Tunisian Jewish descent. ... Marin Karmitz (born on October 7, 1938 in Bucharest, Romania) is a French movie director, producer, and executive producer. ... Claude Lanzmann (born 1925 in Paris) is a Paris-based filmmaker. ... Claude Lelouch (born October 30, 1937) is a French film director, writer and producer. ... Marcel Marceau (born Marcel Mangel) (March 22, 1923 – September 22, 2007) was a well-known mime artist, among the most popular representatives of this art form world-wide. ... Jean-Pierre Melville (born Jean-Pierre Grumbach) (October 20, 1917 – August 2, 1973) was a noted French director. ... Raphael Nadjari (born 1971 in Marseille, France) is a French born writer and director for film and television. ... Gérard Oury, French actor, writer and producer, b. ... Portrait of Mlle Rachel by William Etty, 1840s Rachel (18 February 1821 - 4 January 1858) was a French Jewish actress who was considered the greatest of her time. ... Alexandra Rosenfeld (born in 1986, Béziers, Hérault) was elected Miss France in 2006. ... The Miss France pageant is a long-standing competition which awards prizes to young women contestants from France. ... Maurice Ronet, born Maurice Robinet, (13 April 1927 - 14 March 1983) was a French film actor. ... Portrait of Ida Rubenstein (Valentin Serov 1910) Ida Lvovna Rubinstein [1] (5 October 1885 St. ... Vartan on Alias Michael Vartan (b. ... William Wyler (July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981) was a prolific, Oscar-winning motion picture director. ... Elsa Zylberstein (b. ...

Musicians

• Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813 - 1888) composer & pianist^[96]
• Barbara (born Monique Serf) (1930 - 1997) singer^[97]
• ^{Patrick Bruel (born Patrick Benguigui) (1959 - ) singer, actor[98]}
• ^{Joe Dassin (1938 - 1980) singer[99]}
• Natalie Dessay (1965 - ) soprano^[100]
• Sacha Distel (1933 - 2004) singer^[101]
• Paul Dukas (1865 - 1935) composer^[102]
• Serge Gainsbourg (1928 - 1991) singer-songwriter^[103]
• Benjamin Godard (1849-1895)
• Jean-Jacques Goldman (1951 - ) singer and songwriter^[104]
• Helene Grimaud (1969 - ) pianist
• Fromental Halévy (1799 - 1862) composer^[105]
• Ludovic Halevy (1834-1908), librettist^[106]
• Joseph Kosma (1905 - 1969) film composer^[107]
• Jacques Lanzmann (1927 - 2006) lyricist; brother of Claude Lanzmann^[108]
• Isidore de Lara (1858 - 1930) composer ^[109]
• René Leibowitz (1913 - 1972) composer^[110]
• Daniel Levi (1961 - ) singer, composer^[111]
• Enrico Macias (1938 - ) singer^[112]
• ^{Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974) composer[113]}
• Pierre Monteux (1875 - 1964) conductor^[114]
• Georges Moustaki (1934 - ) composer, singer^[115]
• Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880) composer^[116]
• Régine (1929 - ) Belgian-born singer^[117]
• Sapho - singer^[118]
• Martial Solal (1927 - ) jazz pianist & composer^[119]
• Jean-Michel Pilc (1960 - ) jazz pianist & composer
• Olivier Hutman jazz pianist & composer
• Manuel Rocheman (1965 - ) jazz pianist & composer
• Franck Amsallem (1961 - ) jazz pianist & composer
• David El Malek (1970 - ) jazz saxophonist & composer
• Michel Benita jazz bassist & composer
• Alexandre Tansman (1897 - 1986) composer, pianist^[120]
• Émile Waldteufel (1837 - 1915) composer^[121]

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Writers and poets

• Tristan Bernard (1866 - 1947) playwright & novelist^[122]
• Henri Bernstein (1876 - 1953) playwright^[123]
• Henri Blowitz, journalist ^[8]
• Paul Celan (1920 - 1970) poet^[124]
• Romain Gary (1914 - 1980) novelist^[125]
• Max Jacob (1876 - 1944) poet^[126]
• Edmond Jabès (1912 - 1991) poet^[127]
• Joseph Joffo (1931-) writer^[9]
• Gabriel Josipovici (1940-) novelist^[10]
• Gustave Kahn (1859 - 1936) poet & art critic^[128]
• Joseph Kessel (1898 - 1979) novelist & journalist^[129]
• Jacques Lanzmann (1927 - 2006) writer^[130]
• Justine Lévy (1974-) novelist^[131]
• André Maurois (1885-1967)author^[132]
• Albert Memmi (1921-) novelist & sociologist^[133]
• Patrick Modiano (1945-) writer (half Jewish)^[134]
• Irène Némirovsky (1903 - 1942) writer^[135]
• Georges Perec (1936 - 1982) novelist^[136]
• Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) writer (half Jewish)^[137]
• Yasmina Reza (1959-)playwright^[138]
• Nathalie Sarraute (1900 - 1999) writer^[139]
• Claude Sarraute, journalist, writer^[140]
• Jean-Jacques Schuhl, writer^[141]
• Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (1924 - 2006) journalist, co-founder L'Express^[142]
• Anne Sinclair (1948-) political journalist; wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn^[143]
• André Suarès (1868 - 1948) poet^[144]
• Tristan Tzara (1896 - 1963) poet^[145]
• Ilarie Voronca (1903 - 1946) poet & essayist^[146]
• Bernard Werber, best-selling author^[147]

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Business figures

• Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet (1906 - 1996) founder and head of Publicis Groupe^[148]
• Moïse de Camondo (1860 - 1935) banker^[149]
• Isaac & Daniel Carasso, founders of Danone^[150]
• André Citroën (1878 - 1935) founder of Citroën^[151]
• Marcel Dassault (1892 - 1986) aerospace industrialist^[152]
• Michel^[153], David^[154], and Pierre David-Weill^[11], bankers and chairman of Lazard LLC Partners
• Achille Fould (1800 - 1867) financier^[155]
• Maurice Girodias (1919 - 1900) founder of Olympia Press (half Jewish)^[156]
• Maurice de Hirsch, banker ^[12]
• Philippe Kahn, founder of Borland^[157]
• Gerard Louis-Dreyfus, owner of Louis-Dreyfus & Co. (half Jewish)^[158]
• Alexandre, Simon & Elie Lazard, founders of Lazard Frères ^[13]
• Michel Adam Lisowski, founder and president of Fashion TV^[159]
• André Meyer (1898 - 1979) French/American financier^[160]
• Jean-Pierre Meyer Deputy Chairman of L'Oreal cosmetics^[161]
• Jean-Charles Naouri, financier^[162]
• Emile and Isaac Péreire, bankers ^[14]
• Rothschild banking & wine growing family of France^[163]
• Alain, Gerard, and Pierre Wertheimer owners and co-founder of Chanel^[164]

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Sport figures

• Ossip Bernstein, chess grandmaster ^[15]
• François Cevert (1944 - 1973) racing driver (half Jewish)^[165]
• Robert Cohen (1930-) boxer: World Bantamweight Champion^[166]
• Pierre Darmon (1934-) tennis player^[167]
• René Dreyfus (1905 - 1993) racing driver^[168]
• Alphonse Halimi (1932 - 2006) boxer: World Bantamweight Champion^[169]
• Maurice Herzog, mountaineer : first 8000 m : mountain Annapurna (1950); later a politician^[16]
• Daniel Wildenstein, racehorse owner ^[17]
• Maurice Cohen, OGC Nice president

Ossip Samoilovitch Bernstein, (1882 to 1962), born in Imperial Russia in 1882 to a family of Jewish heritage, his family grew up in the anti-semitic atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia. ... François Cévert in 1973 Albert François Cévert (February 25, 1944 - October 6, 1973) was one of the most colorful racing drivers of the early 1970s. ... Robert Cohen is a Canadian comedy writer. ... Pierre Darmon (born January 14, 1934, in Tunis, Tunisia) was a French tennis player. ... René Dreyfus René Dreyfus (born May 6, 1905 - died August 16, 1993) was a French driver who raced automobiles for 14 years in the 1920s and 1930s, the Golden Era of Grand Prix motor racing. ... Category: ... Maurice Herzog (born 15 January 1919 in Lyon) is a French climber and politician. ... Daniel Wildenstein (September 11, 1917 - October 23, 2001) was a major international art dealer, collector, and scholar, as well as a leading thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder. ...

See also

• History of the Jews in France
• List of French people

The current Jewish community in France numbers around 606,561, according to the World Jewish Congress and 500,000 according to the Appel Unifié Juif de France (France Jewish community main organism), and is found mainly in the metropolitan areas of Paris, Marseille and Strasbourg. ... This is a list of French people. ...

References

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