Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France

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Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France
(CRIF)
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legal form Association under the 1901 law
founding 1944

president Roger Cukierman
Organization type Umbrella organization
Website crif.org

The Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France ( Hebrew הַמוֹעָצָה הַמְיַצֵּגַּת שֶׁל מוֹסָדוֹת יְהוּדִים צָרְפָתִים; dt .: Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France ) is the umbrella organization of Jewish organizations in France .

Surname

The organization is known by the acronym CRIF , the actual abbreviation for Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France would be CRIJF . The short form CRIF comes from the originally historical name Conseil représentatif des israélites de France (German: Representative Council of the Israelites of France ). Today's name is more of an institutional type, while earlier the approach was more of an individual type, because the acronym does not refer to the current lemma with the words "[...] Institutions juives [...]", but to the original and historical word "[... ] israélites […] ”in the lemma.

history

The Conseil représentatif des israélites de France emerged in 1944 from the Comité generale de Défense des Juifs (CGD, German: General Committee for the Defense of the Jews ) founded in Grenoble in July 1943 , whose task was to protect the Jews persecuted by the National Socialists to rescue.

The Comité generale de Défense des Juifs brought together the communists of the Union des Juifs pour la Résistance et l'Entraide (UJRE), the Zionists of the Fédération des sociétés juives de France (FSJF), the Bundists and the atheists .

The Consistoire central israélite de France , the official organization of French Jewry, was also involved in the creation of the Conseil représentatif des israélites de France .

The CRIF then published a joint charter outlining the Franco-Jewish political program of the post-war period. The CRIF tried to unite all Jews in France. The first chairman was Léon Meiss (1896–1966). The first group of leaders of the Conseil consisted of Léo Glaeser (1887–1944), Joseph Fisher, Chil Najman (1894–1953), Nahum Herman, Zvi Levin, Michel Topiol, Joseph Frydman, F. Schrager, Henri Adam, and Claude Kelman Adam Rayski (1913-2008).

After the war, the CRIF immediately established contacts with international Jewish groups such as the World Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Committee .

Task and role

The umbrella organization connects various political, social and religious currents within the Jewish communities in France . The umbrella organization CRIF brings together more than 60 organizations, including the Fonds social juif unifié (FSJU) and the Alliance Israélite Universelle . At the international level, the CRIF is a member of the World Jewish Congress.

Diner du crif

The Dîner du CRIF is an annual fundraising dinner organized by the CRIF and where numerous politicians are invited. The first Dîner du CRIF was organized in 1985 with around fifty invitees. More than 700 people are currently meeting there. The 30th Dîner du CRIF took place on February 23, 2015, with 700 invitees meeting at the Hôtel Pullman-Montparnasse in Paris, including President François Hollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls .

President

The President of the CRIF is elected by the General Assembly for a period of three years. His mandate can be extended once.

  1. Léon Meiss , 1944–1950
  2. Vidal Modiano , 1950-1969
  3. Ady Steg , 1970-1974
  4. Jean Rosenthal , 1974–1976
  5. Alain de Rothschild , 1976-1982
  6. Théo Klein , 1983-1989
  7. Jean Kahn , 1989–1995
  8. Henri Hajdenberg , 1995-2001
  9. Roger Cukierman , 2001-2007
  10. Richard Prasquier , 2007-2013
  11. Roger Cukierman , 2013-2016
  12. Francis Caliphate , since 2016.

literature

  • Samuel Ghiles-Meilhac: Le CRIF. De la Résistance juive à la tentation du lobby. De 1943 à nos jours. Editions Robert Laffon, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-221-12384-3 .
  • Anne King: Le CRIF. Un lobby au coeur de la République. Editions Mithra, Strasbourg 2011, ISBN 978-2-9529423-2-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Samuel Ghiles-Meilhac: De la discorde au compromis fragile . In: Bulletin du Center de recherche français de Jérusalem , 2009.
  2. ↑ Discours d'Adam Rayski on the 60th anniversary of CERIF, May 22, 2003.
  3. ↑ website of the organization on fsju.org.
  4. ^ Coralie Vincent: Dîner du Crif: Daniela Lumbroso, Audrey Pulvar, Dany Boon invités à la soirée , February 25, 2015.
  5. ↑ Francis Caliphate, nouveau Président du CRIF , press release of the CRIF of 29 May 2016 accessed on 23 September 2017th
  6. ↑ Francis Kalifat devient le nouveau président du Crif , leparisien.fr, 29 May 2016, accessed on 23 September 2017.