FRANCE: HISTORY OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE NORTH (#2)

FRANCE: "HISTORY OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE NORTH & PICARDY"

(author, Frederick Viey)

1897 JEWISH INDEX (from “Indicateur Israelite”)

Lille

Consistory:

Grand Rabbi—Cahen Emile

President—Cahen Eugene

Vice-President—Dreyfus Louis

Members—Dreyfus Leopold, Gros Moise, Levy August, Klein Nephtali

            Temple Administration:

President—Michel

Vice-President—Willard Jacques

Secretary—Weil Felix

Ministre-Officiant—Levy Anselme

            Charity & Sponsorship:

President—Cahen Emile

Treasurer—Wahl Oscar

Member—Lion Eugene

Women’s Society:

Honorary President—Cahen (Mrs.) Emile, Gros (Mrs.) Moise

            Religious Education:

Professor—Levy Anselme, Cahen Emile (chaplain of the Lycee)

            Dignitaries & Functionaries:

Vel-Durand—Prefect du Nord

Vallabregue—Squadron Leader

Aron—Colonel & Chief of Artillery

Hecht—Artillery guard

Klein

Fribourg---Medical staff

Weil—Supervisor of Registration

Gros Moise—Controller of Chemin du Nord

Dreyfus J.M.—Police Commissioner

Wahl—Professor

Braun—Professor of German at the “Union Francaise de la Jeunesse”

Valenciennes

            Synagogue:

Rabbi—Meyer Felix

Ministre-Officiant—Weil M.

Administrator—L. Dreyfus

Under-Prefect—Mosse Georges

Huissier (Usher?)—L. Dreyfus

Army—Roshem, Bataillion Chief

Roubaix

Jewish Temple—51 Rue des Champs

Ministre-Officiant—Marx Jacques

Administrator—Weil

Huissier—Grumbach

Direct Contributions—Manuel, Controller

Dunkirk

Synagogue:

Ministre-Officiant—Picard

Administrator—Lazare L.

German Counsel—Eckmann

Tourcoing

Belgian Counsul—Dupont Israel

“CARNET DE LA COMMUNAUTE” (Community Books)

 Examples:

           

1930 “L’Univers Israelite”---Announcements

Birth:

Pierre-Etienne Heymann—parents: John Heymann, grandparents: Alex Heymann (Chairman of the Lille Community) & Gaston Cahen (Director of the Temples Community in Brussels), great-grandparents: Rueff Strasbourg

            With Distinction:

Mrs Israel (nee Wahl)—honorary professor at the Lycee Victor Hugo, Paris, aunt of Mr. Huismann, Director of Fine Arts

Mrs. Gaston Levy (nee Laura Weil)—mother of Mayor Jean Levy, received the 13 Medaille Mutuality

            Engagement:

Marcelle Hirsch—granddaughter of Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Bernheim, former President de la Communaute de Lille & delegate of the Central Consistory of the North, & daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Lucien Hirsch, Secretary of the Jewish community in Lille. Engaged to Mr. Edmond Aaron, lawyer at the Paris court, son of Mr. & Mrs. Aaron. The engagement took place at the home of the girl’s grandparents in Paris,

Rue de Tocqueville. M. Poliakoff, Chief Rabbi presiding.

            Marriage:

Sunday, March 5 at the synagogue of Lille, the marriage of Odette Heymann, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Alex Heymann,( President of the Jewish Community of Lille, member of the House of Trade) & Dr. Robert Waitz, son of Dr. & Mrs.  Waitz of Bagnolet. A civil marriage was celebrated by Jean Levy, Deputy Mayor, a friend of the family.

Witnesses for the bride: Jean Heymann, his brother, & General Lucien Levy, his cousin. For the groom: Professor Merklen, Dean of Strassbourg Medical Faculty and Professor Rathery of the Medical Faculty of Paris. Officiated by Chief Rabbi Poliakoff.