French Jewry Research Articles

Napoleon's Legacy to French Jews - Phyllis Cohen Albert: The Modernization of French Jewry: Consistory and Community in the Nineteenth Century. (Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 1977. Pp. 450. $27.50.)

Napoleon's Legacy to French Jews - Phyllis Cohen Albert: The Modernization of French Jewry: Consistory and Community in the Nineteenth Century. (Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 1977. Pp. 450. $27.50.) - Volume 41 Issue 3

The Modernization of French Jewry: Consistory and Community in the Nineteenth Century

One of the richest sources of information on how Jews of the period between Napoleon and Dreyfus lived.

Phyllis Cohen Albert. <italic>The Modernization of French Jewry: Consistory and Community in the Nineteenth Century</italic>. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press; distributed by University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H. 1977. Pp. xxii, 450. $27.50

Phyllis Cohen Albert. The Modernization of French Jewry: Consistory and Community in the Nineteenth Century. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press; distributed by University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H. 1977. Pp. xxii, 450. $27.50 Albert Phyllis Cohen. The Modernization of French Jewry: Consistory and Community in the Nineteenth Century. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press; distributed by University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H. 1977. Pp. xxii, 450. $27.50. Michael R. Marrus Michael R. Marrus University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 83, Issue 4, October 1978, Page 1026, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/83.4.1026 Published: 01 October 1978

The Inquisition and the Jews of France in the Time of Bernard Gui

The Papal Inquisition of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries cannot be assigned so prominent a position in the history of French Jewry as that which the “New” Inquisition later occupied in the destinies of the Jews of Spain. It is perhaps for this reason that the Jewish aspects of the Inquisition in France have attracted comparatively little attention from scholars. The paucity of original documents relating to the subject may also have been a contributing factor. Still, though it can be understood, this neglect remains unfortunate. In addition to its intrinsic interest for the study of Franco-Jewish history and of Jewish relations with the medieval Church, research into the treatment of the Jews by the French Inquisition can shed much light on the later development in Spain. For all the difference in the historical situations, the Papal Inquisition adumbrated, in its dealings with the Jews, the institution which was to play such a formidable role in the Iberian Peninsula. There is surprisingly little in the theoretical, procedural, and even the practical approach of the Spanish Inquisition to Jewish affairs for which one cannot find the archetype in the earlier Inquisition.