Jean Kahn

Jean Kahn
Jean Kahn in 1995
Title	President of the Council of French Jewish Institutions
Personal
Born	(1929-05-17)17 May 1929 Strasbourg, France
Died	18 August 2013(2013-08-18) (aged 84) Strasbourg, France
Religion	Judaism
Nationality	French
Jewish leader
Predecessor	Théo Klein
Successor	Henri Hajdenberg
Position	President
Organisation	Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France
Began	1989
Ended	1995

Jean Salomon Kahn (17 May 1929 – 18 August 2013) was a French

Biography

Kahn was born on 7 May 1929.

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On 9 May 1990, in the program L'Heure de Vérité, which is also the day of the Affair of the desecration of the Jewish cemetery of Carpentras, Jean-Marie Le Pen declares that "that the Jews have a lot of power in the press, as the Bretons have in the navy, or the Corsicans in customs, that does not seem to me debatable. As people from the National Front noticed that a certain number of Jewish lobbies, like that of Mr. Kahn, persecuted them systematically, they have the impression of seeing a lot of it, it's true”. The latter sued him for defamation and lost three times.

From 1991 to 1996, Jean Kahn was at the head of the European Jewish Congress. He is also vice-president of the World Jewish Congress.

On 4 February 1995, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the

camp, he protested against what he called the "nationalization of the Shoah" by the Polish government, refusing to recognize the specificity of the Jewish martyr. He also participated in the removal of the Carmel from Auschwitz.

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