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Scripturalizing Jewishness through Blackness Black Jews in France
Author(s): Mokoko Gampiot, Aurélien
Date: 2024
Topics: Conversion, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Racism, Religious Observance and Practice, Religious Belief, Race, Ethnicity
Abstract: While conversions to Judaism are generally understudied in France, conversions of Black persons go unnoticed. The past three decades witnessed an increasing number of claims to Jewishness in Africa and conversions in the African diaspora and Israel. Their diverse life stories reflect deep spiritual quests. Scripturalizing Jewishness through Blackness: Black Jews in France describes the multiple ways in which they practice and claim their Judaism, relate to their fellow Jews, and reconstruct their identities. Whether former Christians or native Jews, they (re)define their racial and ethnic identities as members of two minority groups in their interactions with Jewish texts and communities, to find their place in the French Jewry and the broader French society, where they have to face both anti-Semitism and racism. After fifteen years of fieldwork, Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot offers an original analysis of their individual and collective itineraries.
Les convertis noirs au Judaïsme en France
Translated Title: Black converts to Judaism in France
Author(s): Mokoko Gampiot, Aurélien
Date: 2023
Topics: Conversion, Jewish Identity, Race, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: Si les conversions au Judaïsme sont un phénomène encore méconnu en France, les convertis noirs, originaires d’Afrique ou des Antilles, sont parmi les plus invisibles. Embrassant le Judaïsme dans la diversité de ses courants, leurs histoires de vie reflètent une variété de parcours. Il est question de cerner leurs profils individuels religieux et identitaires, les modalités par lesquelles la conversion lie ces Africains et Antillais au monde juif et les processus de recomposition identitaire à l’œuvre. Quels sont leurs choix et motivations ? Comment s’inscrivent-ils dans le paysage juif de France ?
Being a Black Convert to Judaism in France
Author(s): Mokoko Gampiot, Aurélien
Editor(s): Marzouki, Nadia; Roy, Olivier
Date: 2013
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Identity, Conversion, Ethnicity, Race, Minorities
Abstract: Converting to Judaism is possible, but not easy. What might be perceived as being particularly uncommon is the experience of a Black person going through the process of conversion to Judaism in France. Yet Black converts to Judaism are becoming increasingly visible, even though they have not been integrated as such in the self-perception of the Jewish community of France, let alone in the wider French society. One organisation established within the Jewish community of France is currently playing an important part in bringing French Black Jews out of obscurity — the Fraternité Judéo-Noire (Black-Jewish Brotherhood, hereafter FJN). Joining forces to form an organisation seems to have been the best option for these proselytes, whose ethnic profile is not in keeping with the traditional mapping of the French Jewish community as made up of Ashkenazim and Sephardim. This chapter will focus on French Black Jewish identity as experienced and related by African, West Indian, American or biracial converts. What factors have driven them to embrace Judaism at a time when the French media exhibit a marked tendency to expose the Black French as the new anti-Semites?
Les Juifs africains et antillais en région parisienne
Translated Title: African and Antillais Jews in the Paris region
Author(s): Mokoko Gampiot, Aurélien
Editor(s): Kaouès, Fatiha; Vanel, Chrystal; Vilmain, Vincent; Fauches, Aurélien
Date: 2012
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Diaspora, Ethnicity, Race, Jewish Identity, Religion
Abstract: The contemporary evolution of Judaism is marked by a dynamic diaspora whose transnational nature may be perceived in the variety of origins of Jewish believers. The diversity of Jewish communities includes an African, Caribbean, and even African American component, whose actual or alleged Jewish identity has led scholars to investigate into the intersection of race and religion in contemporary Judaism. The present study aims to contribute in the observation of this phenomenon, by focusing on the intersection of religion and ethnicity within Black Judaism in particular black Jews in France? After four years among blacks Jews in Paris area. How does one live as a Black Jew? How do these believers define themselves as Jews and Blacks? How is the notion of Jewishness implemented among them? How do they express their relation to the global Jewish world, and to both their religious communities and the wider French society?
The Transnational Dynamics of Black Jews in France
Author(s): Mokoko Gampiot, Aurélien; Coquet-Mokoko, Cécile
Editor(s): Adogame, Afe
Date: 2014
Topics: Race, Minorities, Jewish Community, Jewish Organisations, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Black Judaism in France and the United States: An Example of the Intersection Between Religion and Race/Ethnicity
Author(s): Mokoko Gampiot, Aurélien
Date: 2017
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Identity, Jewish Community, Conversion, Ethnicity
Abstract: Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the action of Black Jewish organizations (the Fédération Internationale des Juifs noirs and Am-I-Farafina) in France has made visible the existence of a category of French Jews which had so far been little-known and hardly studied. They are native Jews or converts hailing from African countries, the West Indies, or the USA, and offer a wealth of new elements for observers and scholars of Jewish identity by introducing the question of interethnic relations in this frame. How do they perceive themselves as Black and Jewish, and what is their place in the Jewish community in France? The present study addresses these two questions over the past six years, focusing both on expressions of community membership and commitment, and on the religious and personal experiences of the Black Jews of France.