Les mutations du judaïsme tunisien après la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Claude Nataf
Following the Second World War, the Tunisian Judaism met with deep changes as regards the institutions of the Community, the ideologies and the training of the people. The Community, which up to that time was divided between the Tunisian community constituted of people coming from Muslim countries, and the Portuguese community constituted of people from Christian countries, was unified. The ideological trend which advocated the advantage of being granted the French citizenship and the identification to the French model disappears from the landscape whereas the Zionist trend undergoes an important expansion, while others Jews turn towards Tunisian nationalism or Internationalism. The Community is no longer isolated and participates to the Jewish World Congress, while organizations such as JOINT, OSE, ORT, extend their activities to Tunisia. At the same time the will appears to form a new type of Jewish youths, by athletic training, learning Hebrew, more adapted to modern life. But beyond these changes, the two main trends of Order and Movement, are still alive in the Community.
• Le traumatisme de la guerre
• Des institutions communautaires modernisées et démocratisées
• Le déclin d’un vieux courant : le parti de la francisation
• De nouveaux types d’engagement : nationalisme tunisien, communisme, sionisme
• Les mutations idéologiques : essai d’évaluation
• Du côté des individus