Qu’est-ce qu’un scout juif ?
L’éducation juive chez les Éclaireurs israélites de France, de 1923 au début des années 1950
Alain Michel
Among israelite boy scouts of France, the importance and the contents of Jewish education have changed depending on the leading teams, of their awareness of the function of this organisation in the community and of the important discussions which perturbed the Jew world. Starting from the main texts which mark out that history, the paper points out some of the most important stages of the ideological evolution of the EIF and of its consequences upon the educational activities. EIF were born in the beginning of the twenties according to the spirit of the consistory. They put a distance between them and their original center, and referred to a newly thought pluralism around a « common minimum » religious as well as zionistic as defined in 1932. They followed the spiritual renewal during the war helped by the personality of Leo Cohn and the rural work of Lautrec. They were disillusioned after the war, the scout organisation falling, after a short period of fever, into a torpor which exists for the whole of the French Jewish community in the fifties, before the rebirth of the following decenny.
• Un ancrage dans le judaïsme français (1923-1926)
• À la recherche du pluralisme (1926-1932)
• Le temps du « Néo-Hassidisme » (1933-1944)
• Les illusions de l’après-guerre (1945-1949)