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Synagogue Don Isaac Abravanel
The synagogue façade in 2010
Religion
AffiliationOrthodox Judaism
RiteNusach Sefard
Ecclesiastical or organizational statusSynagogue
LeadershipRabbi Elie Ebidia
StatusActive
Location
Location84-86 rue de la Roquette, XIe arrondissement, Paris
CountryFrance
Synagogue Don Isaac Abravanel is located in ParisSynagogue Don Isaac AbravanelLocation of the synagogue in Paris
Geographic coordinates48°51′22″N 2°22′35″E / 48.8560°N 2.3763°E / 48.8560; 2.3763
Architecture
Architect(s)
TypeSynagogue architecture
StyleModernist
Date establishedc. 1900 (as a congregation)
Completed1962
Website
synagogue-laroquette.fr (in French)

The Synagogue Don Isaac Abravanel, also known as the Synagogue de la Roquette, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the XIe arrondissement of Paris, France. Designed by architects Alexandre Persitz and Arthur-Georges Héaume in the Modernist style, the synagogue was built in 1962 for Jews who emigrated to France from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia as a result of decolonization. The congregation worships in the Sephardi rite.

History

Establishment of the congregation

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At the beginning of the 20th century, a number of Jews, principally from Turkey and Salonica with a small minority from Egypt, began settling in the neighborhood of la Roquette, principally around rue Popincourt and rue Sedaine. An oratory was founded in 1909, in the backroom of the cafe "Le Bosphore" on rue Sedaine, where the service took place in both Hebrew and Ladino. When the room became too cramped following further influx of new immigrants, the community built the Al Syete (the Seven) synagogue in 1913 at 7 rue Popincourt, on the site of a former cinema. The synagogue operated at this location until the 1960s.

In the neighborhood, the Jews specialized in the wholesale trade of linens (household linens and table linens). When the First World War broke out, many of the congregants decided to join the French Army. In June 1935 a monument was built at 84-86 rue de la Roquette to commemorate the Jewish volunteers who died for France in the war. The monument was inaugurated by French President Albert Lebrun.

Despite their enlistment in the French Army during the Great War, many Ottoman Jews were delivered to the Nazis by the Vichy regime during the Second World War. Several hundred families from the congregation were rounded up and died in the extermination camps.

Current synagogue

Following the Liberation of Paris, the Sephardic Cult Association of Paris, which already owned land on rue de la Roquette, decided to raise the funds necessary to construct a new synagogue at the place where the previous monument was erected (84-86 rue de la Roquette). The new synagogue was named in honour of Isaac Abravanel, a philosopher and biblical commentator. The Ten Commandments are inscribed in French on the façade of the synagogue.

In 2014, the synagogue was subject to an antisemitic attack.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Isaac Abravanel (Synagogue de la Roquette)". Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux (in French). Retrieved November 4, 2016.
  2. de Sauto, Martine (November 22, 2013). "Le quotidien d'une synagogue". La Croix (in French). Retrieved November 4, 2016.
  3. "Eastern Paris". The Cultural Guide to Jewish Europe. n.d. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  4. A, Aurélie (18 July 2014). "'Yesterday, a Part of My Love for France Left Me'". The Tablet. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  5. Lehrer, Natasha (15 January 2015). "The threat to France's Jews". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 June 2024.

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