French Jews
E371585
French Jews are members of the Jewish community in France, historically influential in the country’s cultural, political, and intellectual life while also facing periods of discrimination and persecution.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| French Jews canonical | 4 |
| Parisian Jews | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3587909 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: French Jews Context triple: [Léon Blum, ethnicGroup, French Jews]
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Chinese Jews
Chinese Jews are members of historic Jewish communities in China, most notably the Kaifeng Jews, who blended Jewish religious traditions with Chinese language and culture over centuries.
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B.
German Jews
German Jews were the Jewish population living in Germany, many of whom faced escalating persecution under Nazi rule that culminated in deportation, imprisonment, and mass murder during the Holocaust.
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Jewish Americans
Jewish Americans are U.S. citizens or residents of Jewish heritage who form a diverse religious and ethnic community with significant cultural, political, and social influence in American life.
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Jews
Jews are an ethnoreligious group originating from the ancient Israelites and Hebrews, historically associated with Judaism and a shared cultural, religious, and national identity.
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E.
Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews are a major Jewish ethnoreligious group historically centered in Central and Eastern Europe, with distinct cultural, religious, and linguistic traditions such as Yiddish.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: French Jews Target entity description: French Jews are members of the Jewish community in France, historically influential in the country’s cultural, political, and intellectual life while also facing periods of discrimination and persecution.
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A.
Chinese Jews
Chinese Jews are members of historic Jewish communities in China, most notably the Kaifeng Jews, who blended Jewish religious traditions with Chinese language and culture over centuries.
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B.
German Jews
German Jews were the Jewish population living in Germany, many of whom faced escalating persecution under Nazi rule that culminated in deportation, imprisonment, and mass murder during the Holocaust.
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C.
Jewish Americans
Jewish Americans are U.S. citizens or residents of Jewish heritage who form a diverse religious and ethnic community with significant cultural, political, and social influence in American life.
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D.
Jews
Jews are an ethnoreligious group originating from the ancient Israelites and Hebrews, historically associated with Judaism and a shared cultural, religious, and national identity.
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E.
Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews are a major Jewish ethnoreligious group historically centered in Central and Eastern Europe, with distinct cultural, religious, and linguistic traditions such as Yiddish.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (81)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish community
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ethnoreligious group ⓘ |
| associatedIssue |
debates over laïcité and religious symbols
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security concerns for synagogues and schools ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| culturalInstitution |
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme
ⓘ
Mémorial de la Shoah ⓘ |
| diasporaDestination |
Canada
ⓘ
Israel ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
other European countries ⓘ |
| experiencedEvent |
Dreyfus affair
ⓘ
People's Crusade ⓘ
surface form:
First Crusade persecutions
French Revolution emancipation of Jews ⓘ Holocaust in France ⓘ Statut des Juifs ⓘ
surface form:
Vichy anti-Jewish laws
deportations to Nazi concentration and extermination camps ⓘ expulsions from France in the Middle Ages ⓘ mass immigration from North Africa after decolonization ⓘ post-World War II community reconstruction ⓘ |
| facedDiscriminationType |
antisemitic violence
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legal restrictions ⓘ medieval expulsions ⓘ modern antisemitic attacks ⓘ state-sponsored persecution under Vichy ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Consistoire central israélite de France
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Crif ⓘ Grand Rabbinat de France ⓘ |
| hasCemeteryType | Jewish cemetery ⓘ |
| hasCuisineInfluence |
Alsatian Jewish cuisine in France
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North African Jewish cuisine in France ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuildingType | synagogue ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
Ashkenazi Jews
ⓘ
surface form:
Alsatian Jews
Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora ⓘ
surface form:
Ashkenazi Jews in France
Mizrahi Jews ⓘ
surface form:
Mizrahi Jews in France
French Jews self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Parisian Jews
Sephardi Jews ⓘ
surface form:
Sephardi Jews in France
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| historicalPresenceSinceCentury |
1st millennium CE
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Middle Ages ⓘ |
| language |
Arabic
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French ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) ⓘ
surface form:
Ladino
Yiddish ⓘ |
| legalStatusChange | emancipated in 1791 by the French National Assembly ⓘ |
| mainCities |
Lyon
ⓘ
Marseille ⓘ Paris ⓘ Strasbourg ⓘ Toulouse ⓘ |
| mainReligiousDenomination |
Orthodox Judaism
ⓘ
Orthodox Judaism ⓘ
surface form:
Traditionalist Judaism
|
| majorImmigrationPeriod |
1950s
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1960s ⓘ 1970s ⓘ |
| majorImmigrationWaveFrom |
Algeria
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Morocco ⓘ Tunisia ⓘ |
| notableContribution |
French cinema
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French commerce ⓘ French literature ⓘ French music ⓘ French philosophy ⓘ French politics ⓘ French science ⓘ |
| observesHoliday |
Hanukkah
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Passover ⓘ Rosh Hashanah ⓘ Shabbat ⓘ Yom Kippur ⓘ |
| partOf |
Diaspora Jewry
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European Jews ⓘ |
| populationEstimate |
largest Jewish community in Europe in the early 21st century
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one of the largest Jewish communities in the world ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| religiousDenomination |
Conservative Judaism
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Reform Judaism ⓘ Secular Jews ⓘ |
| victimsNumberEstimate | about 76000 Jews deported from France during the Holocaust ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: French Jews Description of subject: French Jews are members of the Jewish community in France, historically influential in the country’s cultural, political, and intellectual life while also facing periods of discrimination and persecution.
Referenced by (5)
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