The Notion of a “Jewish Community” in France
Shmuel Trigano
1994
The use of the notion of “community” to define French Judaism is not self-evident. On the one hand, if “community” renders the medieval kahal, the concept has a long history and has engendered any number of mythical images: there are therefore reasons for seeing it as a model that might be found anywhere that Jewish life has developed. But in fact…
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