Une communauté prolétaire [Ressource électronique] : les Juifs marocains de Saint-Fons, 1919-1946 / Elkbir Atouf

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Demobilized soldiers after the first World War, and workers drawn to Saint-Fons by employers needing them, a group of Jews from Marocco, in order to escape the misery of the mellah settles between the two World Wars in this industrial community where they are relegated to the lowest level of the working class. However, gradually, the community develops a structure around a society of mutual aid, mainly religious, which manages to provide casher supplies, to open a place of worship, to ensure ritual burials, until the building of a synagogue and the fixing up a cemetery in the thirties. The community as such will not survive the upheaval of the second World War

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