List of French Jews

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.

The following is a list of some prominent Jews and people of Jewish origins (among others) (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) ^{[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/cassin.html]}
*Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1945 - ) student leader and German Green MEP ^{[http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=1736]}
* Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "he was of Portuguese Jewish descent"]
*Alain Krivine (1941 - ) student leader and Trotskyist MEP ^{[http://www.acpr.org.il/NATIV/2000-2/stavxs.htm]}
*André Spire (1868 - 1966) lawyer, journalist, poet, Jewish society and French Zionism leader ^{[http://library.ucsc.edu/exhibits/1996.html]}

Clergymen

*Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger (1926 - 2007) former Catholic archbishop of Paris and cardinal ^{[http://www.bartleby.com/63/81/4381.html]}

Military

*Members of Main d'Œuvre Immigrée (MOI) - French Resistance group, mostly Jewish members
*Denise Bloch (1915 - 1945) WWII SOE spy ^{[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/ww2/sugar2.html]}
*Nissim de Camondo (1892 - 1917) pilot in WWI ^{[http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/gb/04museecamondo/index.html]}
*Alfred Dreyfus (1859 - 1935) military officer ^{[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Dreyfus.html]}
* Robert Gamzon, French resistant, commanding the 2nd company of Maquis de Vabre

Politicians

*Robert Badinter (1928 - ) Justice minister, 1981-6; abolished the death penalty in France ^{[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0411/is_n2_v42/ai_13977172]}
*Léon Blum (1872 - 1950) Prime Minister 1936-7, 1938, 1946-7 ^{[http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/travel/]}
*Adolphe Crémieux (1796 - 1880) Justice minister, 1848, 1870-1 ^{[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Cremieux.html]}
*Laurent Fabius (1946 - ) Prime Minister, 1984-6 ^{[http://www.jewishquarterly.org/article.asp?articleid=257]}
*Louis-Lucien Klotz (1868 - 1930) journalist and politician; Minister of Finance during World War I ^{[http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/history_of_political_economy/v032/32.4reder.html]}
*Bernard Kouchner (1939 - ) politician and doctor ^{[http://www.zeek.net/605finkiel/]}
*Georges Mandel (1885 - 1944) Interior minister, 1939 ^{[http://worldatwar.net/biography/m/mandel/index.html]}
*Pierre Mendès-France (1907 - 1982) Prime Minister, 1954-5; withdrew from Indochina ^{[http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=8163]}
*Jules Moch (1893 - 1985) Transport minister, 1945-7; Interior minister, 1947-50; Defense minister, 1950-1 ^{[http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/1870.htm]}
*Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949 - ) Finance minister, 1997-9 ^{[http://ejpress.org/article/news/5698]}
*Simone Veil (1927 - ) Health minister, 1974-6; legalized abortion, President of the European Parliament 1979-82 ^{[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-VeilSimon.html]}

Rabbis

*Gilles Bernheim, chief rabbi of France elected in June 2008
*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
*Zadoc Kahn [1839-1905), chief rabbi of France and translator of the Bible in French
*Rashi (1040-1105) famed as the author of the first comprehensive commentaries on the Talmud
*Joseph Sitruk, (1944 - ), chief rabbi of France from 1987 to 2008
*Jacob Kaplan

Journalists

* Charles Enderlin, journalist for France 2 and a dual French-Israeli national
* Marc Gilbert journalist for l' ORTF
* Michel Drucker journalist for France 2
* Marie Drucker journalist for France 3
* Marc-Olivier Fogiel journalist for M6
* Franz-Olivier Giesbert rédacteur en chef du Point
* Jean-Jacques Servan Schreiber directeur de L'Express
* Éric Zemmour political journalist

Victims

* Ilan Halimi, murder victim ^{[http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1170359805310]}

Academic figures

cientists

*Anatole Abragam (1914 - ) Russian-born physicist ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Physicists.html]}
*Liliane Ackermann (1938-2007) microbiologist
*Hippolyte Bernheim (1840 - 1919) hypnosis pioneer ^{[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2267/is_n2_v65/ai_20964259]}
* Maurice Block (1816 - 1901) statistician [Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th ed: "He was born in Berlin of Jewish parents. He studied at Bonn and Giessen, but settled in Paris, becoming naturalized there"]
*Georges Charpak, (1924 - ), physicist, Nobel Prize (1992)
*Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1933 - ) physicist, Nobel Prize (1997) ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Nobels_Physics.html]}
*Jacques Hadamard (1865 - 1963) mathematician ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html]}
*François Jacob (1920 - ) microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1965) ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Biomedical_Scientists.html]}
*Gabriel Lippmann (1845 - 1921) physicist, Nobel Prize (1908) ^{[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=449&letter=L]}
*Andre Michael Lwoff (1902 - 1994) microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1965) ^{[http://www.bookrags.com/Andre_Michael_Lwoff]}
*Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899-1983) mathematician
*Benoît B. Mandelbrot (1924- ), father of fractal geometry
*Henri Moissan (1852 - 1907) chemist, Nobel Prize (1906) (half Jewish) ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Chemists.html]}
*Alfred-Joseph Naquet (1834-1916)chemist and politician; promoter of french divorce law
*Olinde Rodrigues (1795 - 1851) mathematician & social reformer ^{[http://www.maa.org/reviews/SocialUtopias.html]}
*Laurent Schwartz (1915 - 2002) mathematician, Fields Medal (1950) ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html]}
*André Weil (1906 - 1998) mathematician, Wolf Prize (1979) ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Kyoto.html]}

ocial scientists

* Albert Aftalion, Bulgarian-born French economist [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2nd ed., art. "Aftalion, Albert"]
*Raymond Aron (1905 - 1983) sociologist ^{[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-2280977.html]}
*Robert Aron (1898-1975) historian
*Julien Benda (1867 - 1956) philosopher & novelist ^{[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/benda.htm]}
*Berachyah (12th or 13th century) philosopher ^{[http://www.radicalacademy.com/adiphiljewish2.htm#Berachyah]}
*Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941) philosopher, Nobel Prize (1927) ^{[http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=8163]}
*Marc Bloch (1886 - 1944) historian & Resistance leader ^{[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/marcbloch.html]}
*Léon Brunschvicg (1869 - 1944) philosopher ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Philosophers.html]}
*Hélène Cixous (1937 - ) feminist critic ^{[http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/Cixous.html]}
*Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004) philosopher ^{[http://www.filmforum.org/films/derrida.html]}
*Émile Durkheim (1858 - 1917) sociologist ^{[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0276-1114(198610)6%3A3%3C287%3ADEDATJ%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A]}
*Alain Finkielkraut (1949 - ) essayist ^{[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=650155]}
*Georges Friedmann (1902-1977) sociologist
*Gersonides (1288 - 1344) philosopher ^{[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-1753(199406)85%3A2%3C315%3ASOGAFJ%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2]}
*André Glucksmann (1937 - ) philosopher ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Philosophers.html]}
* Jean Gottmann (1915 - 1994) geographer [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only child of prosperous Jewish parents"]
*Robert Hertz (1881 - 1915) sociologist ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Anthropology.html]}
*Emmanuel Lévinas (1906 - 1995) philosopher ^{[http://www.jafi.org.il/education/culture/levinas.html]}
*Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 - ) anthropologist ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Anthropology.html]}
*Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948 - ) philosopher ^{[http://www.paris-expat.com/interviews/3-06levy.htm]}
*Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857 - 1939) philosopher & anthropologist ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Anthropology.html]}
*Gabriel Marcel (1889 - 1973) philosopher ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Philosophers.html]}
*Marcel Mauss (1872 - 1950) sociologist ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Anthropology.html]}
*Edgar Morin (1921- ) sociologist
*Jacob Rodrigues Pereira (1715 - 1780) first to teach the deaf ^{[http://www.saudades.org/My_Diary.htm]}
*Léon Poliakov (1910 - 1997) historian
*Rashi (1040 - 1105) religious commentator ^{[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/rashi.html]}
*Maxime Rodinson (1915 - 2004) historian ^{[http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article.jsp?id=6&articleId=2819]}
*George Steiner (1929 - ) literary critic ^{[http://www.jewish-sci-tech-books.com/catalogue/general.htm]}
*Jean Wahl (1888-1974) philosopher
*Simone Weil (1909 - 1943) philosopher & mystic ^{[http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/20/mar02/weil.htm]}

Cultural figures

Artists

*Christian Boltanski (1944 - ) photographer, sculptor and installation artist ^{[http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/civ_&xml/&aspKath/civ.asp?fdate=23/08/2006]}
*Claude Cahun (1894 - 1954) photographer ^{[http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/claudecahun.html]}
*Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) Ukrainian-born abstract artist who with artist husband Robert Delaunay, helped found Orphism art movement
*André François (1915 - 2005) cartoonist ^{[http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=cat&category1=In+Passing&newsitem_no=13754]}
*Michel Kikoine (1892 - 1968) painter ^{[http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/kikoine.html]}
*Moise Kisling (1891 - 1953) Polish-born painter ^{[http://www.jewishmuseum.org/home/content/exhibitions/special/paris/paris.html]}
*Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903) painter (half Jewish) ^{[http://www.artcult.com/5003.htm]}
*Joann Sfar (1971 - ) cartoonist ^{[http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/31035/format/html/displaystory.html]}
*Chaim Soutine (1893 - 1943) Belarusian-born painter ^{[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Soutine.html]}
*Pauline Trigère (1909 - 2002) fashion designer ^{[http://www.suzanne.tv/show.asp?sid=179]}
*Ossip Zadkine (1890 - 1967) sculptor (half Jewish) ^{[http://www.huji.ac.il/cgi-bin/mm/new/data/ihoker/MOP-STAFF_LINK?sno=269873&Save_t=]}

Film and stage

*Anouk Aimée (1932 - ) actresscite encyclopedia | title =Motion Pictures| encyclopedia =Encyclopaedia Judaica| volume=| pages =| publisher =Keter Publishing House| date =1971-1972| id =| accessdate =2006-11-17 ]
*Alexandre Aja (1978 - ) director ("Haute Tension") ^{[http://www.movieweb.com/news/73/11473.php]}
*Arthur (born Jacques Essebag) TV productor, TV Host, humorist, actor (1966 - ) ^{[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_(animateur)]}
*Richard Anconina [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Anconina] (1953 - ) actor ^{[http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/richard-anconina-19851.php]}
*Yvan Attal (1965-) filmmaker ^{[http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7050779]}
*Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911 - 2001) actorcite news | last =| first =| coauthors=| title =Jean-Pierre Aumont ... returned to fight for his country despite the dangerto him as a Jew| pages=31| publisher =Jewish Chronicle| date =2001-02-16 | url =| accessdate =2007-02-06 ]
*Elie Kakou (1960 - 1999) humorist, actor French wikipedia
*Emmanuelle Béart (1963 - ) actress [http://membres.lycos.fr/beadevantbeart/]
*Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923) world-famous stage actress ^{[http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/134/5852/mac.asp?wid=134&nid=5852]}
*Michel Boujenah (1952 - ) actor, productor, director ^{[http://www.monsieur-biographie.com/celebrite/biographie/alain_chabat-5146.php]}
*Alain Chabat (1958 - ) actor, humorist, director ^{[http://www.a7fr.com/Default.aspx?tabid=52&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=34906]}
*Sami Frey (1937-)A Famous stag actor, director,movie actor
^{*David Charvet (1972 - ) French-born actor/singer ("Baywatch") [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/30189/format/html/displaystory.html]
*Elie Chouraqui (1953- ) director, productor, scripwriter, actor [http://www.col.fr/article-516.html]
*Marcel Dalio (1900 - 1983) actor [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800043714]
*Gerard Darmon (1948 - ) actor, singer [http://www.crif.org/?page=sheader/detail&aid=2456&artyd=5]
*Arié Elmaleh (1975 - ) actor, brother of Gad [http://www.premiere.fr/premiere/cinema/films-et-seances/fiches-personnalite/arie-elmaleh]
*Gad Elmaleh (1971 - ) humorist, actor, singer brother of Arié [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=739996]
*Daniel Emilfork (1924 - 2006) actor [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article613558.ece]
*Anna Held (1872 - 1918) actress [http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/theatre_journal/v057/57.2miller.pdf]
*Agnès Jaoui (1964 - ) director & actress [http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/france_159/label-france_2554/themes_3713/culture_3922/cinema_3925/agnes-jaoui-or-taste-for-our-own_6261.html]
*Marin Karmitz (1938 - ) producer [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0743-6831(199924%2F200021)16%3A4%3C90%3ATPIRDD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z]
*Elie Kakou (1960 - 1999) humorist, actor [http://www.rudy-lagersie.net/eliekakou.html]
*Claude Lanzmann (1925-) filmmaker [http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/9236]
*Claude Lelouch (1937-) director [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9047714/Claude-Lelouch]
*Marcel Marceau (1923 - 2007) mime artist [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=8991]
*Jean-Pierre Melville (1917 - 1973) film director and screenwriter [http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A36742]
*Raphael Nadjari (1971-) director
*Gérard Oury (1919-2006) director
*Rachel (1821 - 1858) stage actress [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/France.html]
*Alexandra Rosenfeld (1986 - ) Miss France 2006 [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/29795/edition_id/561/format/html/displaystory.html]
*Maurice Ronet (1927-1983) actor, director, writer
*Ida Rubinstein (1885 - 1960) Belle Epoque icon [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0149-7677(198824)20%3A2%3C33%3AIRATC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1]
*Elie Semoun (1963 - ) humorist, actor, singer [http://tele.fluctuat.net/elie-et-dieudonne.html]
*Simone Signoret (1921-1985) Academy, Emmy, BAFTA and César Award-winning film, stage and television actress
*Michael Vartan (1968 - ) actor [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7856813/site/newsweek/]
*William Wyler (1902 - 1981) director [http://www.adherents.com/people/pw/William_Wyler.html]
*Elsa Zylberstein (1968 - ) actress}

Musicians

*Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813 - 1888) composer & pianist ^{[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22127]}
* Franck Amsallem, (1961- ) jazz pianist and composer
*Barbara (born Monique Serf) (1930 - 1997) singer <sup>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Serf]
*Patrick Bruel (born Patrick Benguigui) (1959 - ) singer, actor [http://www.a7fr.com/Default.aspx?tabid=52&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=34906]
*Joe Dassin (1938 - 1980) singer [http://www.ejpress.org/article/culture/5893]
*Natalie Dessay (1965 - ) soprano [http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm10-8/Natalie-Dessay.htm]
*Sacha Distel (1933 - 2004) singer [http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1099_death_of_distel.htm]
*Paul Dukas (1865 - 1935) composer [http://www.jstor.org/view/00274666/ap031114/03a00020/0] Michel Emer.- composer of many hit songs by Edith Piaf.
*Serge Gainsbourg (1928 - 1991) singer-songwriter [http://www.wfmu.org/~bart/sg.html]
*Benjamin Godard (1849-1895)
*Jean-Jacques Goldman (1951 - ) singer and songwriter [http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6307.asp]
*Helene Grimaud (1969 - ) pianist
*Fromental Halévy (1799 - 1862) composer [http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001132.php]
*Ludovic Halevy (1834-1908), librettist [http://www.kol-ami.org/news/archive/2004/06/index.html]
*Joseph Kosma (1905 - 1969) film composer [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00004TL0K]
*Jacques Lanzmann (1927 - 2006) lyricist; brother of Claude Lanzmann [http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/9236]
* Isidore de Lara (1858 - 1930) composer [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=73&letter=L&search=de%20lara]
*René Leibowitz (1913 - 1972) composer [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0040-2982(197912)2%3A131%3C6%3ARL(%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23]
*Daniel Levi (1961 - ) singer, composer [http://www.col.fr/article-1.html]
*Enrico Macias (1938 - ) singer [http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6206.asp]
*Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974) composer [http://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/articles.taf?function=detail&ID=35]
*Pierre Monteux (1875 - 1964) conductor [http://daniellathompson.com/Texts/Le_Boeuf/milhaud_at_mills.htm]
*Georges Moustaki (1934 - ) composer, singer [http://www.rfimusique.com/siteEn/biographie/biographie_6170.asp]
*Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880) composer [http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/94_95season/1st_concert/offenbach.cfm]
*Régine (1929 - ) Belgian-born singer [http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/cmarchive/vol22no6/rev231tellnoonewhoyouare.html]
*Sapho - singer [http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/000511/2000051131.html]
*Martial Solal (1927 - ) jazz pianist & composer [http://jazztimes.com/columns_and_features/table_of_contents/article_excerpts/index.cfm?article_id=17666]
*Jean-Michel Pilc (1960 - ) jazz pianist & composer
*Olivier Hutman jazz pianist & composer
*Manuel Rocheman (1965 - ) jazz pianist & composer
*David El Malek (1970 - ) jazz saxophonist & composer
*Michel Benita jazz bassist & composer
*Alexandre Tansman (1897 - 1986) composer, pianist [http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-1543860_ITM]
*Émile Waldteufel (1837 - 1915) composer [http://www.leedsconcertseason.com/MODULES/NEWS/LICS_NEWSmoduleASP/NEWSMOD_newsitem.asp?type=explore%20and%20learn&itemid=87]</sup>

Writers and poets

* Tristan Bernard (1866 - 1947) playwright & novelist ^{[http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005215]}
* Henri Bernstein (1876 - 1953) playwright ^{[http://www.schwarzreport.org/Essays/wvdestruction.htm]}
* Henri Blowitz, journalist [Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed., art. "Blowitz, Henri]
* Paul Celan (1920 - 1970) poet ^{[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/celan.htm]}
* Romain Gary (1914 - 1980) novelist ^{[http://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/academic/languages/yiddish/mendele/vol5.021]}
* Max Jacob (1876 - 1944) poet ^{[http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=1514]}
* Edmond Jabès (1912 - 1991) poet ^{[http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ISBN/1900755718/Location/DBBC]}
* Joseph Joffo (1931-) writer ["A Bag of Marbles" - Joseph Joffo]
* Gabriel Josipovici (1940-) novelist [(Jewish Year Book 2005 p215)]
* Gustave Kahn (1859 - 1936) poet & art critic ^{[http://mushecht.haifa.ac.il/hecht/art/GhezCollection_eng.aspx?id=14]}
* Joseph Kessel (1898 - 1979) novelist & journalist ^{[http://www.jstor.org/view/0016111x/ap020261/02a00720/0]}
* Jacques Lanzmann (1927 - 2006) writer ^{[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060704/ai_n16512419]}
* Justine Lévy (1974-) novelist ^{[http://www.lire.fr/enquete.asp/idC=31236&idTC=15&idR=200&idG=3]}
* André Maurois (1885-1967)author ^{[http://www.jstor.org/view/0016111x/ap020256/02a00280/0]}
* Albert Memmi (1921-) novelist & sociologist ^{[http://www.rdg.ac.uk/french/memmistatue.htm]}
* Patrick Modiano (1945-) writer (half Jewish) ^{[https://www.bu.edu/agni/essays-reviews/print/1999/50-charbonneau.html]}
* Irène Némirovsky (1903 - 1942) writer ^{[http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5481]}
* Georges Perec (1936 - 1982) novelist ^{[http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/perec.html]}
* Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) writer ^{[http://www.adherents.com/people/pp/Marcel_Proust.html]}
* Yasmina Reza (1959-)playwright ^{[http://www.alleytheatre.org/Alley/Life_x_3_Information_Page_EN.asp?SnID=88975]}
* Nathalie Sarraute (1900 - 1999) writer ^{[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi]}
* Claude Sarraute, journalist, writer ^{[http://www.parismatch.com/rubriques/lire_article.php?article_id=1106]}
* Jean-Jacques Schuhl, writer ^{[http://www.nhanvan.com/thuvien/authors/jean-jacques_schuhl.htm]}
* Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (1924 - 2006) journalist, co-founder L'Express ^{[http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1962421.ece]}
* Anne Sinclair (1948-) political journalist; wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn ^{[http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,690114,00.html]}
* André Suarès (1868 - 1948) poet ^{[http://www.bh.org.il/Communities/Archive/Marseilles.asp]}
* Tristan Tzara (1896 - 1963) poet ^{[http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/art_dada_1.html]}
* Ilarie Voronca (1903 - 1946) poet & essayist ^{[http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/getdocument.aspx?logid=5&id=D78C773F-3268-424D-A254-FDAC0148D8CF]}
* Bernard Werber, best-selling author ^{[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=318715&contrassID=2&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y]}

Business figures

* Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet (1906 - 1996) founder and head of Publicis Groupe ^{[http://www.cedost.it/testi/UK/1974_inglese.htm]}
* Moïse de Camondo (1860 - 1935) banker ^{[http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/gb/04museecamondo/index.html]}
* Isaac & Daniel Carasso, founders of Danone ^{[http://www.public-histoire.com/saga/yaourt/yaourt7.html]}
* André Citroën (1878 - 1935) founder of Citroën ^{[http://www.citroen.mb.ca/cItROeNeT/resources/books/biblio7.html]}
* Marcel Dassault (1892 - 1986) aerospace industrialist ^{[http://p2.www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9029419]}
* Michel ^{[http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de/site/EN/07-Membership/03-Sponsors/03-Patrons-Circle/patrons-circle.php]} , David ^{[http://www.bonjourparis.com/Articles/History_&_Politics/The_Lost_Museum/]} , and Pierre David-WeillEncyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Lazard"] , bankers and chairman of Lazard LLC Partners
* Achille Fould (1800 - 1867) financier ^{[http://www.xs4all.nl/~androom/index.htm?biography/p024349.htm]}
* Maurice Girodias (1919 - 1900) founder of Olympia Press (half Jewish) ^{[http://www.reading.ac.uk/library/colls/special/girodias.html]}
* Maurice de Hirsch, banker [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His grandfather Jacob had established the family as one of the first Jewish families to acquire great wealth and social acceptability in Bavaria ... His mother came from an Orthodox Frankfurt family and ensured that the children were properly instructed in Jewish matters ... he moved to Paris ... He was a well-known and ubiquitous member of the smart set in Paris"]
* Philippe Kahn, founder of Borland ^{[http://www.fullpower.com/?Page=Vision&Side=Blog&View=1996-1998&ID=1996-February-22]}
* Gerard Louis-Dreyfus, owner of Louis-Dreyfus & Co. (half Jewish) ^{[http://www.superiorpics.com/julia_louis_dreyfus/]}
* Alexandre, Simon & Elie Lazard, founders of Lazard Frères
* Michel Adam Lisowski, founder and president of Fashion TV ^{[http://www.col.fr/article-259.html]}
* André Meyer (1898 - 1979) French/American financier ^{[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modern_judaism/v018/18.1goodwin.html]}
* Jean-Pierre Meyer Deputy Chairman of L'Oreal cosmetics ^{[http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/fashion.htm]}
* Jean-Charles Naouri, financier ^{[http://www.zlabia.com/commentaires43.htm]}
* Emile and Isaac Péreire, bankers [Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Pereire, Emile and Isaac"]
* Rothschild banking & wine growing family of France ^{[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=445&letter=R#1289]}
* Alain, Gerard, and Pierre Wertheimer owners and co-founder of Chanel ^{[http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/fashion.htm]}

port figures

* Ossip Bernstein, chess grandmaster Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Chess"]
* François Cevert (1944 - 1973) racing driver (half Jewish) ^{[http://www.research-racing.de/tyrrell73-3.htm]}
* Gilbert Cohen, boxer
* Robert Cohen (1930-) boxer: World Bantamweight Champion ^{[http://www.jewishsports.com/jewsin/history/boxinghistory.htm]}
* Pierre Darmon (1934-) tennis player ^{[http://www.jewishsports.net/biopages/PierreDarmon.htm]}
* René Dreyfus (1905 - 1993) racing driver ^{[http://www.jewishsports.com/jewsin/history/a2mhistory.htm]}
* Alphonse Halimi (1932 - 2006) boxer: World Bantamweight Champion ^{[http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/AlphonseHalimi.htm]}
* Maurice Herzog, mountaineer : first 8000 m : mountain Annapurna (1950); later a politician ["Jewish Chronicle", November 30 1962 p.1]
* Alfred Nakache (1915-1983), swimming champion
* Daniel Wildenstein, racehorse owner [Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Wildenstein"]
* Maurice Cohen, OGC Nice president

ee also

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

References

Footnotes