Plural Identities
Given that at present, more than half of the marriages contracted by Jew in France are mixed, the question “what does it mean to be Jewish?” is of particular importance. When individuals define themselves as Jewish but do not practice, and share their lives with a non-Jew, what do they transmit? My study shows that both partners, Jewish and non Jewish, want to transmit a Judaism that they often call a “cultural Judaism”. They seek to reinvent spaces, symbolic and real, that render their plural identity coherent and allow them to transmit a secularized Judaism to their children. ftis wish to claim a Jewish identity is often linked to the Shoah.