A new book called L’an prochain à Jérusalem? (“Next Year In Jerusalem?”) by the pollster Jérôme Fourquet and geographer Sylvain Manternach, argues that French Jewry is moving increasingly to the proper at a time when the community is “living with a strong feeling of insecurity,” one year after the attack on the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris that left four dead, and amid continued acts of anti-Semitism.
The book—based on a survey of 724 French Jews conducted by the polling company Ifop between June and August of 2015 for the Fondation Jean-Jaurès (which is affiliated with the Socialist Party)—is strange in that France does not tend to poll on the basis of race or religion; after all,this would smack of tribalism and anti-republicanism. It was the first time Ifop has looked into the Jewish community’s religious, political, or social composition,following surveys approximately the Catholic and Arab-Muslim vote.
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