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You have large concentrations of Jews,
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Sephardic Jews, in Bordeaux
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and in Paris and in Alsace and Lorraine,
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where there had been really vigorous
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and vicious anti-Semitic riots after the Revolution of 1848.
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And in Alsace, interestingly enough, the three religions,
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that is, the Catholics,
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the Protestants and the Jews,
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tried to outdo each other in charity.
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They set up really remarkable kind of voluntary associations
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to help out poor people;
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and it points to one sort of interesting aspect of it.