Jules Isaac

Jules Isaac (1877 - 1963) is a Historien French author of famous handbooks of Histoire and pioneer of the Friendships Judeo-Christians.

He is born with Rennes the November 18th 1877, where his/her father resides then, Militaire from career, Alsatian Juif having chosen for France in 1871. He loses at thirteen years his two parents in a few months of interval, and becomes internal with the Lycée Lakanal with Sceaux. At the twenty years age, it becomes acquainted with Charles Péguy; it is the beginning of a long friendship, marked in particular by the creation of the Cahiers of the Fortnight. With Péguy, Isaac engages in the camp supporter of Dreyfus.

Professor, author and militant

It is received with the aggregation history, in 1902, year of its marriage with Laure Ettinghausen. He teaches with Nice, then with Sens. He is introduced by Ernest Lavisse at Hachette, which publishes the collection of handbooks of history of Albert Malet. Isaac is initially charged to write memoranda for the baccalaureat. Named professor with the Louis-the-Large College, then to the College Saint-Louis, it extends its collaboration to handbooks for higher primary school education also resulting from the Malet collection.

Albert Malet dies in the face in 1915, and Jules Isaac writes only the new grinding imposed by new programs. But the name of Malet remains associated in the name of the collection. Member of the League of the human rights and the citizen, then Committee of vigilance of the intellectuals antifascists, Jules Isaac engages in favor of a better comprehension between French and German S, and militates in particular for a revision of the school handbooks. In 1936, it is named general inspector of the State education.

End 1940, it is revoked by the government of Vichy, under the terms of the discriminatory statute of the Jews. His wife and her daughter are stopped in Riom the October 7th 1943, then off-set and assassinated with Auschwitz. His/her son, decree him also, succeed in escaping from a camp in Germany. In 1945, Jules Isaac is restored in his rights as honorary general inspector.

The Friendships Judeo-Christians

Jules Isaac then devotes most of his efforts to the investigation into the causes of the Antisémitisme. He publishes Jesus and Israel , written during the war, then inspires the Charter of Seelisberg. Cofounder and stimulating credit of the Friendships Judeo-Christians in 1947, it gets busy to fight in particular the Christian roots of the evil, which appear determining to him. Its essential idea is to emphasize the deeply Jewish roots of the primitive Christianisme.

In 1949, it intervenes with the Pape Pie XII so that one revises the prayer of the Good Friday, which comprised offensive mentions for the Juif S (see the article Oremus and pro perfidis judaeis). It thus poses the stakes of a way which will lead to the Concile Vatican II, whose deliberations will give rise to the declaration Nostra Ætate (1965) of the Pope Jean XXIII. It publishes:

Jesus and Israel , 1948;
Genesis of the anti-semitism , 1956;
the Teaching of the contempt , 1962.

It dies out in Aix-en-Provence in 1963.

External bond

Biography of Jules Isaac

See too

Andre Kaspi: Jules Isaac or the passion of the truth (Plon 2002).

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