We announced it to you a few months ago, it is now a reality. For the first time in the world, all the issues of the newspaper Les Archives Israélites de France have been digitized and are available online directly on the Digital Library of the Alliance Israélite Universelle!
95 years of publication (1840-1935), 3344 issues, the greatest signatures of French Judaism, this monument of the Jewish press is, with its alter ego and competitor "L’univers israélite" (1844-1940), an indispensable source of historical knowledge on the Jewish world of the 19 th and 20 th century.
Paradoxically, this journal has not yet been studied as such. Since Béatrice Philippe's master's thesis in 1975 (Philippe, Béatrice. Les Archives israélites de France : de leur création en 1840 à février 1848 ou un journal Juif sous Louis-Philippe; Etudes des Mentalités.), No monographic study has returned to this major source of Jewish history in France. Hopefully, putting all of the journal's texts online will awaken the interest of young researchers.
The Israélites Archives of France is a French monthly journal founded in 1840 in Paris by the journalist and Hebrew artist Samuel Cahen (1796-1862). Author of treatises on Jewish education, translator of the Bible, he is also the father of Isidore Cahen (1826-1902), one of the founders of the Alliance Israélite Universelle. The journal appeared from January 1840 to November 1935, upon the death of its chief-editor, Henri Prague (n ° 122/123 of November 21, 1935), when it was absorbed by Le Journal juif . (January 1935 to February 1936). Both journals subsequently merged into Samedi which was issued from 1936 to 1939.
By this publication, a century of the history and intellectual life of French Judaism becomes accessible to all.
The AIU digital library continues to develop its “Press” section with French and foreign newspapers in multiple fields.
A hundred years ago in the Israelites Archives of France :
In the issue dated September 4, 1919, we learn of the elevation of Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Dreyfus to the rank of officer of the Legion of Honor. He had been appointed knight in 1906, the day after the verdict of the Court of Cassation recognizing his innocence.