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Reading Jewish Paris properly

Short essays on memory, culture, and tradition, the layer beneath the walking tour, written by a journalist who works inside this world rather than visits it.

Planning

Before you book

Planning

How to Choose a Private Jewish Tour of Paris

What "private" actually means, how it differs from a group tour, and the questions worth asking before you book.

Planning

Visiting Paris During the Protests

An honest guide: where and when the marches concentrate, what stays normal, and how we plan around them.

Memory & History

What happened here

Memory & History

Rue des Rosiers: A History in Layers

From the medieval expulsion to the Ashkenazi Pletzl, the 1982 attack, and today's gentrification tension.

Memory & History

Best Time to Visit the Mémorial de la Shoah

Practical, honest advice on timing, duration, and what a historian-led visit adds.

Art & Culture

What's being made here

Art & Culture

Hector Guimard's Synagogue

The only synagogue built by the architect of the Paris Métro entrances.

Art & Culture

K. and the Rebirth of French Jewish Intellectual Life

Where Jewish-Parisian thought is being made today, not just preserved.

Table & Tradition

How it's lived here

Table & Tradition

Where to Eat Kosher in the Marais

A journalist's real guide, certified versus kosher-style, and what's actually reliable.

Table & Tradition

Shabbat in Paris: A Private Family Dinner

What it actually looks like to share Shabbat with a Parisian Jewish family.

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Élie Petit, EI · Paris, France · By the founder of FixersInParis and Prod Is Prod