French Jewish and anti-racist organisations: various papers

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Alliance Israélite Universelle, a Jewish organisation founded in France in 1865 as a reaction to antisemitism, the main aim of which was the defence of world Jewry and the Ligue Internationale contre le Racisme et l'Antisémitisme, created in 1928. The latter was not an exclusively Jewish organisation but its defence of East European Jews attracted many Jews and the tendency of many of its members to seek confrontation with antisemites on the streets brought it into alliance with left-wing organisations 

French Jewish and anti-racist organisations: various papers 

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For the early history of Alliance Israelite Universelle see The Jews of Modern France, by Paula E. Hyman, University of California, 1998 and for background on this organisation and on L.I.C.A. see Les Juifs à Paris de 1933 à 1939 by David H. Weinberg, Calmann-Levy, 1974, translated by Micheline Pouteau.