Résister à l'emprise du consistoire à Paris dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle : la " synagogue Sauphar ", par François Lustman, Monique Lévy et Stéphane Toublanc

Des assemblées de prière particulières subsistèrent malgré la centralisation du culte imposée par le gouvernement impérial via la création des consistoires. Les auteurs étudient la personnalité d'un instituteur hébraïque, Lévi Aron Sauphar, qui maintint la sienne ouverte en marge du consistoire de Paris de 1822 environ à 1835, la rouvrant après chaque fermeture. Qui était-il ? Que peut-on savoir de ses origines et de son milieu familial ? Quelle a été la trajectoire de sa vie ? À quel public, et de quelle nuance religieuse, s'adressait-il ? Derrière Lévi Aron Sauphar et son affrontement avec le consistoire de Paris se dessine un milieu encore peu étudié, celui de la petite communauté de Paris en mutation dans le premier tiers du XIXe siècle.
 
 

Holding out against the ascendancy of the Consistory in Paris during the first half of the XIXth century : the "Sauphar synagogue", by François Lustman, Monique Lévy, Stéphane Toublanc

Private prayers meetings continued being held in spite of the concentration of religious practice under the authority of the newly created consistories imposed by the imperial government. The authors examine the character of a Hebraic teacher, Lévi Aron Sauphar, who maintained his school open cut off the Consistory of Paris from 1822 to 1835, reopening it as soon as it was closed. Who was he ? What may be known of his origin and his family environment ? What was his aim in life ? What audience, what religious opinion did he adress to ? Beyond Lévi Aron Sauphar and his attitude as an opponent to the Consistory of Paris, we can perceive an environment which is still almost unknown, that of a small community of Paris an its evolution during the first third of the XIXth century.