Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot is a senior research associate on the Archiving the Inner City Project at the Department of Sociology of the University of York (UK), a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Religion and Public Life of the University of Leeds (UK), and an associate researcher at the Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcité (CNRS, France) hosted by the Sorbonne (École Pratique des Hautes Études).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: History of the Presence of Jews and Blacks in FranceChapter 2: Self-Identification or Quest of JewishnessChapter 3: Patterns of Conversion of Africans and West Indians to Judaism: From Christian to Jew Chapter 4: Black Jews’ Insertion in the French JewryChapter 5: Black Jewish Organizations in FranceChapter 6: Interracial MarriagesChapter 7: Being Black and Jewish in France todayConclusionGlossaryBibliographyAbout the Author

This book will interest students and scholars of lived religion in France, as well as those studying the process of identity formation in a diverse contemporary world.

Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot is a senior research associate on the Archiving the Inner City Project at the Department of Sociology of the University of York (UK), a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Religion and Public Life of the University of Leeds (UK), and an associate researcher at the Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcité (CNRS, France) hosted by the Sorbonne (École Pratique des Hautes Études).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: History of the Presence of Jews and Blacks in FranceChapter 2: Self-Identification or Quest of JewishnessChapter 3: Patterns of Conversion of Africans and West Indians to Judaism: From Christian to Jew Chapter 4: Black Jews’ Insertion in the French JewryChapter 5: Black Jewish Organizations in FranceChapter 6: Interracial MarriagesChapter 7: Being Black and Jewish in France todayConclusionGlossaryBibliographyAbout the Author

This book will interest students and scholars of lived religion in France, as well as those studying the process of identity formation in a diverse contemporary world.

Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot is a senior research associate on the Archiving the Inner City Project at the Department of Sociology of the University of York (UK), a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Religion and Public Life of the University of Leeds (UK), and an associate researcher at the Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcité (CNRS, France) hosted by the Sorbonne (École Pratique des Hautes Études).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: History of the Presence of Jews and Blacks in FranceChapter 2: Self-Identification or Quest of JewishnessChapter 3: Patterns of Conversion of Africans and West Indians to Judaism: From Christian to Jew Chapter 4: Black Jews’ Insertion in the French JewryChapter 5: Black Jewish Organizations in FranceChapter 6: Interracial MarriagesChapter 7: Being Black and Jewish in France todayConclusionGlossaryBibliographyAbout the Author

This book will interest students and scholars of lived religion in France, as well as those studying the process of identity formation in a diverse contemporary world.