Jules Isaac
 Jules Isaac about Charles Peguy July 15, 1959
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Jules Isaac (18 November 1877, Rennes – 6 September 1963, Aix-en-Provence) was “a well known and highly respected Jewish historian in France with an impressive career in the world of education” by the time World War II began.
Internationally, Isaac was most well known for his tireless work after the War in the field of Jewish-Christian relations, culminating in his decisive key role in the origin of the groundbreaking declaration Nostra Aetate during the Second Vatican Council. In the 1950s, Isaac had an international reputation for his work in Christian and Jewish relations.
Jules Isaac (full name Jules Marx Isaac) was born in Rennes on November 18, 1877. He was born into “an old Jewish family.” Isaac’s paternal grandfather served in the Grand Army and fought in the Battle of Waterloo. His father was a French career military officer and was appointed squadron leader during the Second French Empire. Both were awarded the Legion of Honour.
When Isaac was age twelve, both parents died a few months apart. After that, he entered Lakanal high school in Sceaux.
Charles Péguy
In 1897, when Isaac was twenty, he met Charles Péguy. This began “a long friendship” in which Isaac was influenced by Péguy. Together they created the French magazine Cahiers de la Quinzaine. Péguy was a Christian. He and Isaac were friends for seventeen years, until Peguy died on 5 September 1914. They worked as a team for “reconciliation between Jews and Christians.” In doing so, they faced anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in France had been promulgated by Édouard Drumont in his widely read La France juive.
Dreyfus affair
Isaac was seventeen when the Dreyfus affair broke in 1894. He and his friend Péguy supported Dreyfus until its resolution in 1906. Isaac had already become a founder of the Socialist Liberal journal The Fortnight and was dedicated to fight injustice. Isaac supported Dreyfus not because Dreyfus was Jewish. His support for Dreyfus was grounded on “his deep passion for the liberating qualities of truth.”
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