Le comportement spatial des juifs de Strasbourg

Abstract

The spatial behaviour of the Jews of Strasbourg/France. This paper highlights the residential behaviour of the Jews of Strasbourg and its development between 1966 and 1990. This behaviour was conservative, with a large concentration of the Jews in the neighbourhood of the synagogue and the Jewish community centre. Jews from North Africa, who immigrated to this city in the early 1960's, were more dispersed at the beginning in more distant parts of the city, but they adopted the general Jewish pattern and came to live near the Jewish centre. The centre of gravity of Jewish domicils moved slightly to the east, but it still is within walking distance of the synagogue. A comparision with Basle/Switzerland (the author has formerly researched its Jewish residential behaviour) shows a similar pattern. In both cities, only a small fraction of the Jews went to live in suburbs, contrary to the general population, as well as to the residential behaviour of the Jews of Leeds/England (who moved outwards in each of the last three générations), and of the Jews in the U.S.A., where there is a much larger dispersion of the Jews in the last decades.