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To understand recent developments in French Jewry, we must keep in mind four important events: the French Revolution, the Décret Crémieux that gave French nationality to Algerian Jews, the Holocaust, and the independence of Algeria or, in general, the post-colonization era. The modern period for French Jewry begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century, when, de jure, the Jews of the kingdom of France received equality of rights. But this new status was, indeed, a matter of law alone, not of practice, as the Jews' integration into the French bou…