Stéphane Séjourné
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Jan 9, 2024 · Attal is the fourth French prime minister of Jewish origin, after Borne, Léon Blum, who served several times in the 1930s and the 1940s, and Pierre Mendès France, who took office in the 1950s....
His father was Jewish and his mother an Orthodox Christian; Attal was raised in his mother's Orthodox Christian faith, but would not maintain the faith in later years. Attal attended the École alsacienne, an exclusive private school in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.
Jan 9, 2024 · Gabriel Attal says his father told him, “You’ll feel Jewish all your life, mainly because you’ll suffer antisemitism because of your name.”
Jan 10, 2024 · France's newest prime minister is getting attention for the two firsts he brings to the job: Gabriel Attal, at 34, is the country's youngest ever prime minister, and its first to be openly gay. He says another facet of his identity also shapes him: his late father's Jewishness.
Feb 5, 2024 · Attal is the son of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. His late father, lawyer and film producer Yves Attal, was of Tunisian and Alsatian descent, and his mother hails from a...
Jul 31, 2023 · France's new education minister, Gabriel Attal, may not be halachically Jewish — his father is a Jewish movie producer, his mother an Orthodox Christian — but the 34-year-old rising star of...
Jan 11, 2024 · BEARDSLEY: Attal was raised Orthodox Christian, but his father, now deceased, was Jewish and told him he would always suffer antisemitism because of his Jewish last name.
