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he tour buses are all over
Paris these days. Parked
along the fabled Tuileries
Gardens and near the
Alma bridge, huge vehicles bear-
ing license plates from Ger-
many,Italy, Poland, Holland,
England, Scandinavia, Czecho-
slovakia and several east Euro-
pean countries show that the 10
million visitors who visit France's
capital each year have made the
city the world's most popular
tourist destination.
Small wonder.
Ernest Hemingway called
Paris a "moveable feast." The city
is a feast for architecture buffs,
the fashion conscious, fire arts en-
thusiasts, art aficionados,
gourmet cooks and music and
book lovers.
For Jewish tourists, Paris, now
the home of the largest Jewish
community in one city in Europe,
numbering well over 400,000
souls, has numerous religious,
cultural and gastronomic attrac-
tions to attract interest.
The Bibliotheque Nationale,
the country's mammoth research
library, located on the rue de
Richelieu, contains not only one
of the world's largest collections
of Judaica but an equally pre-
cious collection of Hebrew man-
uscripts dating from the Middle
Ages.
France's Alliance Israelite Uni-
verselle, which operates Jewish
schools all over the world, has its
headquarters at 45 rue de la
Bruyere where it houses an im-
pressive library of Judaica and
rare manuscripts as well.
Jewish publishing, as reflect-
ed in books, magazines and news-
papers is enjoying a mini
renaissance in the city. Paris
boasts a Yiddish newspaper with
a proletarian bent called Unzer
Vort. According to the paper's 86-
year-old editor, Jacques Cypel,
the paper has "several thousand
readers."
In addition, the French capital
houses a number of French lan-
guage magazines and newspa-
pers including L'Arche, La
Tribune Juive and a relative new
the oddly named Tohu
Vohu (from the first verses of
Genesis: "And the earth was un-
formed an void"), — the journal
of the Jewish students of the Uni-
versity of Paris.
The number of kosher restau-
rants and cafeterias, all with a
French flavor, has expanded con-
siderably in the last two decades
At last count, according to the

prestigious Beth Din of Paris,
there are 251 restaurants, cater-
ers, delicatessens and butcher
shops under the strict kashruth
supervision of that rabbinic au-
thority. In that number are over
50 restaurants.
In addition to the kosher eater-
ies and take-out establishments
which specialize in coos-coos, and
which are found in the rue Mon-
martre Metro area, there is a
unique Philippines-kosher es-
tablishment called Aux Iles

The city is a feast for
architecture buffs,
the fashion
conscious, gourmet
cooks and music and
book lovers.

Philipines, in the Pantheon dis-
trict on the Left Bank which has
the most exotic dishes found any-
where in the kosher world.
The Hotel Bristol, probably
Paris' most fashionable hostelry,
situated on the rue Faubourg St.
Honore, has been known for
years as the city's most elegant
tourist accommodation: Nov it
has special interest for Jewish
tourists for it was there that ne-
gotiators for Israel and the PLO
met for days of protracted dis-
cussions late in 1993 when they
were hammering out the details
of their peace plan. Undoubted-
ly the hotel's civilized atmosphere
assisted them in their delibera-
tions.
Civilized is also the word that
comes to mind when one thinks
of Paris' largest synagogue at 44
rue de la Victoire. This jewel is
the major Consistorie synagogue.
In its full glory 75 years ago,the
synagogue associated with the fa-
mous Rothschild name, still re-
tains today, in its gracious
architecture, formally dressed
sexton (with Napoleonic head-
gear) and decorous service, much
of its attractiveness.
There are, of course, many oth-
er synagogues in Paris and its en-
virons (more than 60), ranging
from liberal to the shtiblach type
found in the Pletzl area of the
Marais district, the rue des
Rosiers area and also in the rue
Cadet arrondissement. In the lat-
ter section, there are Chasidic es-
tablishments where Yiddish and

