Zionist library for boys and girls · 1908-01-01 · 1 · p. Seite 1

-1- THE' ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UlIVERSELLE The Jews in France were the most assimilated of all. France v.-as the place of the great Revolution and its revolutionary ideas "which demanded freedom and equality for all, and found its results also in the emancipation and afterwards to a great extent in the assimilation of the Jews. Many Jews had their children haptised. There were some great writers amongst the French Je"..s who propagated that the Jewish people had a mission to fulfil amongst the other peoples, hut they too oelieved that In order to fulfil this mission, the Jews could only do so hut completely assimilating with the Christians. Nevertheless,- the Jews of France produced an organisation which showed that they felt a definite solidarity with all the Jews in the world, and that they would help them whenever trouble should arise. In the year 1860, prominent rnemhers of the Jewish community came together and formed an organisation called the Alliance Israelite Universelle. The idea y^as