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Jules Isaac (18 November 1877, Rennes - 6 September 1963, Aix-en-Provence) was a Jewish French historian. He dedicated a large part of his efforts to research into the causes of antisemitism. He published Jésus et Israël, edited during the war, then inspired by the Charte de Seelisberg. Cofounder, with Edmond Fleg among others, and active member of "Amitiés judéo-chrétiennes" in 1947, he was particularly engaged in fighting anti-Semitism's Christian origins, which he saw as decisive. His essential idea was to make Early Christianity's Jewish origins better valued [...]