Author: Jacques Ehrenfreund

Jacques Ehrenfreund

Jacques Ehrenfreund is a historian and professor at the University of Lausanne, where he holds the Chair of Jewish History and Judaism. A specialist in modern and contemporary Jewish history, his work focuses on the relationships between Jewish identities and European nation-states. He directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Jewish Studies (CIEJ).

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Les articles de Jacques Ehrenfreund

The lessons of October 7, or the end of a parenthesis in Jewish history

Introduction: The massacre of October 7, 2023, caused an earthquake whose shockwaves continue to reverberate throughout the Jewish world. In Israel, it reactivated the specter...

Par Jacques Ehrenfreund

The Return of War, the Jews, and the Crisis of History

Why have historians been unable to qualify the October 7 massacres as part of the history of anti-Semitism? Jacques Ehrenfreund analyzes this crisis in the...

Par Jacques Ehrenfreund

L'Europe de nuit en 2016. Credits: NASA Earth Observatory.

Sergio Della Pergola: “The percentage of Jews in Europe has returned to the same level as in the Middle Ages”

Sergio Della Pergola has just published an extensive demographic study on Europe’s Jews. Pergola’s inquiry, produced in collaboration with David Staetsky and the London-based Institute...

Par Jacques Ehrenfreund

Les articles de Jacques Ehrenfreund

The lessons of October 7, or the end of a parenthesis in Jewish history

The Return of War, the Jews, and the Crisis of History

Sergio Della Pergola: “The percentage of Jews in Europe has returned to the same level as in the Middle Ages”

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The lessons of October 7, or the end of a parenthesis in Jewish history

The Return of War, the Jews, and the Crisis of History

Sergio Della Pergola: “The percentage of Jews in Europe has returned to the same level as in the Middle Ages”

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