The ''Union des étudiants juifs de France'' ("Union of French Jewish students", UEJF) is a French organization whose aim is to assist French

Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""T ...

ish students. It was founded in 1944 to assist young Jews who came back from

concentration camp Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simpl ...

s or, more generally, who had escaped the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

. The organization is well known in part for its participation in litigation about issues involving

antisemitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...

, as in the case of

LICRA v. Yahoo! ''Ligue contre le racisme et l'antisémitisme et Union des étudiants juifs de France c. Yahoo! Inc. et Société Yahoo! France'' (''LICRA c. Yahoo!'') is a French court case decided by the Tribunal de grande instance of Paris in 2000. The case co ...

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Jewish youth organizations Zionist organizations Student religious organizations in France 1944 establishments in France Student organizations established in 1944 Jews and Judaism in France Zionism in France {{youth-org-stub