Yonathan Arfi
Yonathan Arfi (born 14 April 1980) is a French CEO and activist. A member of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF, "Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions") since 2002, he was elected as vice-president on 4 February 2014, and ran for president in 2022. On 26 June 2022, he succeeded Francis Kalifat as president of the CRIF. Biography Yonathan Arfi was born in Toulouse to a Sephardic Jewish family of Algerian and Moroccan descent. Early life Arfi spent his childhood in the Yvelines. He was a member of the Éclaireuses et éclaireurs israélites de France ("Jewish Guides and Scouts of France"), and obtained his degree at HEC Paris. Fight against antisemitism in France From 2003 to 2005, Yonathan Arfi was president of the Union des étudiants juifs de France (UEJF, "Union of French Jewish Students"). He was a member of the CRIF's executive office in 2007, then vice president from 2014 to 2022. As the leader of the association, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Toulouse
Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Paris. It is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, fourth-largest city in France after Paris, Marseille and Lyon, with 511,684 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries (2022); its Functional area (France), metropolitan area has a population of 1,513,396 inhabitants (2022). Toulouse is the central city of one of the 22 Métropole, metropolitan councils of France. Between the 2014 and 2020 censuses, its metropolitan area was the third fastest growing among metropolitan areas larger than 500,000 inhabitants in France. Toulouse is the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus, the SPOT (satellites), SPOT satellite system, ATR ( ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Antisemitism In France
Antisemitism in France is the expression through words or actions of an ideology of hatred of Jews on French soil. Jews were present in Roman Gaul, but information is limited before the fourth century. As the Christianity in the 4th century#Roman Empire, Roman Empire became Christianized, restrictions on Jews began and many emigrated, some to Gaul. In the Middle Ages, France was a center of Jewish learning, but over time, persecution of Jews, persecution increased, including multiple expulsions and returns. During the French Revolution in the late 18th century, on the other hand, France was the first country in Europe to Jewish emancipation, emancipate its Jewish population. Antisemitism still occurred in cycles, reaching a high level in the 1890s, as demonstrated during the most known instance, the Dreyfus Affair, and in the 1940s, under German military administration in occupied France during World War II, German occupation and the Vichy regime. During World War II, the Vich ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Philippe Bourdrel
Philippe is a masculine given name, cognate to Philip, and sometimes also a surname. The name may refer to: * Philippe of Belgium (born 1960), King of the Belgians (2013–present) * Philippe (footballer) (born 2000), Brazilian footballer * Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, father to Albert I of Belgium * Philippe d'Orléans (other), multiple people * Philippe A. Autexier (1954–1998), French music historian * Philippe Blain, French volleyball player and coach * Philippe Najib Boulos (1902–1979), Lebanese lawyer and politician * Philippe Broussard (born 1963), French journalist * Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer * Philippe Daverio (1949–2020), Italian art historian * Philippe Djian (born 1949), French author * Philippe Dubuisson-Lebon, Canadian football player * Philippe Ginestet (born 1954), French billionaire businessman, founder of GiFi * Philippe Gilbert, Belgian bicycle racer * Philippe Noiret, French actor * Philippe Petit, French performer and tightro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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La Martinière Groupe
La Martinière Groupe () is a French publishing house. It was formed in 1994. Subsidiaries include France's Éditions du Seuil and the United States' Abrams Books. In 2018, La Martinière was acquired by Média-Participations. See also * Books in France , five firms in France rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: , Groupe Albin Michel, Groupe Madrigall (including Éditions Gallimard), Hachette Livre (including Éditions Grasset), and Martinière Groupe (in ... References External links * Publishing companies of France French companies established in 1994 {{publish-company-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michel Wieviorka
Michel Wieviorka (born 23 August 1946) is a French sociologist, noted for his work on violence, terrorism, racism, social movements and the theory of social change. He was the 16th president of International Sociological Association (2006–2010). Biography Michel Wieviorka is the son of a Polish Jewish family of Holocaust survivors. His siblings are psychiatrist Sylvie Wieviorka, historian Annette Wieviorka, and historian Olivier Wieviorka. A former student of Alain Touraine, he is now one of the most renowned sociologists and public intellectuals in France and abroad. A number of his books have been translated into different languages. Wieviorka received some international media attention as an expert following the 2005 civil unrest in France, and was elected in Durban as the 2006-2010 President of the International Sociological Association. Together with Touraine and , Wieviorka developed the method of ''intervention sociologique'' and employed it to the study of milita ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pierre-André Taguieff
Pierre-André Taguieff (born 4 August 1946) is a French philosopher who has specialised in the study of racism and antisemitism. He is the director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in an Institut d'études politiques de Paris laboratory, the Centre for Political Research (). He is also a member of the Cercle de l'Oratoire think tank. Taguieff is the author of a number of books and papers on racism and antisemitism, including ''The Force of Prejudice: On Racism and Its Doubles'' (2001) and ''Rising from the Muck: The New Antisemitism in Europe'' (2004). He is known in particular for his studies on the French National Front and populism. Beliefs and works On racism In ''La Force du préjugé – essai sur le racisme et ses doubles'' (1987), Taguieff analyzed several different types of racism: * The first type of racism is against miscegenation, in favor of racial segregation, and wants to preserve differences between various alleged races. 19 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dominique Schnapper
Dominique Schnapper (born 9 November 1934) was a member of the Constitutional Council of France from 2001 to 2010. She is also a scholar and professor of sociology. Her sociological studies have been largely historical and have ranged from inquiries into minorities and labour to others on citizenship and nations. She has been named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She is the daughter of the French intellectual Raymond Aron Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (; ; 14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century. Aron is best known for his .... References External linksDominique SchnapperInternational Balzan Prize Foundation 1934 births Living people Writers from Paris French sociologists French women sociologists Knights of the Legion of Honour Sciences Po alumni Academic staf ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yazid Sabeg
Yazid Sabeg (born 8 January 1950) is a French businessman. He is the president of the administrative council of the high-technology firm and also a member of the . Early life and education Born in Guelma, Algeria to a docker father, he moved to what was then metropolitan France in 1952, and did his studies at Faidherbe Secondary School in Lille and then at the University of Paris I where he obtained a PhD in economic and social sciences. Career Sabeg began his career at a subsidiary of Crédit Lyonnais Bank. In 1990, after an experience in Spie Batignolles, he founded a financial firm thanks to which he took control of the Compagnie des Signaux, known as CS Communication et Systèmes. His success in the business world, coupled with his Maghrebian origins, have given him a lot of media coverage. Member of the , he is close to the UMP. In 2004, he published ''Discrimination positive, pourquoi la France ne peut y échapper'' 'Positive discrimination, why France cannot escape fr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Natacha Polony
Natacha Polony (born 15 April 1975) is a French journalist and essayist of Polish origin. She notably worked on the France 2 television show ''On n'est pas couché'', hosted by Laurent Ruquier, from 2011 until 2014. Since 2018, she has been editor-in-chief of the French newspaper ''Marianne''. Bibliography * ''Nos Enfants gâchés : petit traité sur la fracture générationnelle'', Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès, 2005. * ''M(me) le président, si vous osiez... : 15 mesures pour sauver l’école'', Éditions Mille et une nuits, 2007. * ''L’Homme est l'avenir de la femme'', Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès, 2008. * Préface à ''Autopsie du mammouth'' de Claire Mazeron, Éditions Jean-Claude Gawsewitch, 2010. * ''École : le pire est de plus en plus sûr'', Éditions Mille et une nuits, 2011. * ''Ce pays qu’on abat. Chroniques 2009-2014'', Plon, 2014. * ''Nous sommes la France'', Plon, 2015. * ''Chrétiens français ou français chrétiens'' (with Fabrice Hadjadj and Paul ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alain Finkielkraut
Alain Luc Finkielkraut (; ; born 30 June 1949) is a French essayist, radio producer, and public intellectual. Since 1986, he has been the host of ''Répliques'', a talk show broadcast weekly on France Culture. He was elected a Fellow of the Académie Française in 2014. Life and career Finkielkraut is the son of a Polish Jewish manufacturer of fine leather goods who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. Finkielkraut studied modern literature at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud. He joined the Department of French Literature in the University of California, Berkeley as an assistant professor in 1976 and the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the École Polytechnique as a professor in 1989. At the end of the 1990s, Finkielkraut founded with Benny Lévy and Bernard-Henri Lévy an at Jerusalem. In 2010, he was involved in founding JCall, a left-wing advocacy group based in Europe to lobby the European Parliament on foreign policy issues concernin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amar Dib
Amar may refer to: People Given name * Amar (British singer) (born 1982), British Indian singer born Amar Dhanjal * Amar (Lebanese-Egyptian singer & actress) (born 1986), born Amar Mahmoud Al Tahech * Amar Bose (1929–2013), Founder of Bose Corporation * Amar Gupta (born 1953), Indian computer scientist * Amar Khan, Pakistani director, writer and television actress * Amar Sakhri, Algerian politician * Amar Singh (other) * Amar Talwar (born 1949), Bollywood and Television actor * Amar Upadhyay (born 1972), Indian Television actor Surname * Akhil Amar (born 1958), American professor of law at Yale * Anandyn Amar (1886-1941), Mongolian politician * David Amar (1920–2000), Moroccan Jewish businessman * Jean-Pierre-André Amar (1755–1816), politician in the French Revolution * Jo Amar (1930–2009), Moroccan-Israeli singer * Larry Amar (1972–2020), American field hockey player * Ludu Daw Amar (1915–2008), Burmese writer from Mandalay * Shlomo Amar (born 1948), ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jean-Yves Camus
Jean-Yves Camus (born 1958) is a French political scientist who specializes in nationalist movements in Europe. Life and career Born in 1958 to a Catholic and Gaullist family, Camus is an observant Jew and describes himself as part of "the anti-totalitarian left". He earned a M.A.S. in contemporary history at Sciences Po in 1982. He has been a researcher at the ''Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques'' since 2006 and the president of the Observatoire des radicalités politiques ("Observatory of political radicalism") at the center-left think tank Fondation Jean-Jaurès since 2014. In February 2016, Camus was nominated member of the scientific council of the ''Délégation interministérielle à la lutte contre le racisme et l'antisémitisme'' (DILCRA), directed by Dominique Schnapper. Works *''Les Droites nationales et radicales en France'', (with René Monzat), Lyon, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1992 () * Dir., ''Les Extrémistes, de l'Atlantique � ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |