List of French Jews

Jews have lived in France since Roman times with a rich and complex history.

In the Middle Ages, French kings expelled most of the original Ashkenazi Jewish population to Germany.

During World War II, a significant number of Jews living in Metropolitan France were murdered in the Holocaust or deported to Nazi death camps by the French Vichy government.

After the independence of Morocco, Tunisia and the end of Algerian War, an influx of immigration of Sephardi Jews saw the Jewish population triple to around 600,000, making it the largest Jewish community in Western Europe.

The strongly secular French nationality law forbids any statistics or lists based on ethnic or religious membership.