Espaces réels et espaces imaginaires chez les Juifs d’Alsace du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle
Georges Weill
The poet Claude Vigée, in 1930, made a sardonic assessment, describing the Jews in Alsace as people full of self importance and strongly disliking those of another origin. This does not necessarily account for the political, social and cultural surroundings that have structured for centuries their realistic and imaginary spaces. Confined by restricting regulations, and also because they have lived for a long time as economical, community and religious autarchies in small rural communities, they had strong links with the German Judaïsm which they mainly originated from by immigration and the cultural influence of which they were submitted to. These autarchies left vivid marks on their behavior. During the XIXth century however, their horizon opened up to the French citizenship throughout the whole territory of France thanks to the emancipation acts, and to the known world, mainly the American continent, to which many of them emigrated as early as years before 1870.
• Un judaïsme rural au recrutement allemand
• L’espace politique, social et familial
• Peuplement et espace économique
• Des horizons plus lointains au sentiment d’appartenance à la France