Une communauté prolétaire : les Juifs marocains de Saint-Fons, 1919-1946
Elkbir Atouf
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.
• Combien de Juifs marocains à Saint-Fons ?
• Un sous-prolétariat ouvrier
• Un mellah au bord du Rhône
• Structures sociales, culturelles et cultuelles
• Naissance d’une communauté
• L’impact des persécutions de la Seconde Guerre mondiale