Georges Weill (historian)
Georges Weill (31 January 1934 – 14 June 2022) was a French archivist and historian. He was a  and honorary president of the . He co-founded the Commission française des Archives Juives in 1962 alongside , , and Gilbert Cahon. He was Inspector-General of the  from 1989 to 1996 and curator of the library of the Alliance Israélite Universelle from 1958 to 1989. He was an archivist for the Israelite Central Consistory of France from 1967 to 1980. Weill died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, on 14 June 2022 at the age of 88. Distinctions
Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite (1991)
Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1992)
Knight of the Legion of Honour (1999)

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1934 births
2022 deaths
20th-century French historians
Historians of Jews and Judaism
French librarians
French archivists
Writers from Strasbourg
Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
École Nationale des Chartes alumni