Editing Olry Terquem (section)

==Jewish activism==
Terquem has been called the first, most radical, and most outspoken of the major proponents of Jewish reform in France,<ref name="meyer">{{citation|title=Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism|first=Michael A.|last=Meyer|publisher=Wayne State University Press|year=1995|isbn=9780814337554|pages=165–167|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M12toEjI5PEC&pg=PA165}}.</ref><ref name="glick">{{citation|title=Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America|first=Leonard B.|last=Glick|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2005|isbn=9780198039259|pages=137–138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SF6fbjNe0yYC&pg=PA137}}.</ref> "the ''enfant terrible'' of French Judaism".<ref name="meyer"/> He published 27 "letters of an Israelite" under the name "[[Sarfati|Tsarphati]]" (a Hebrew word for a Frenchman),<ref name="glick"/><ref name="albert">{{citation|title=Essays in Modern Jewish History: A Tribute to Ben Halpern|series=Herzl Press publications|editor1-first=Phyllis Cohen|editor1-last=Albert|editor2-first=Frances|editor2-last=Malino|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|year=1982|isbn=9780838630952|contribution=Nonorthodox attitudes in nineteenth-century French Judaism|first=Phyllis Cohen|last=Albert|pages=121–141}}. See in particular [https://books.google.com/books?id=F8xaoJ2Xy0sC&pg=PA123 p.&nbsp;123].</ref> pushing for reforms that in his view would better assimilate Jews into modern life<ref name="glick"/> and better accommodate working-class Jews.<ref name="meyer"/> The first nine of these appeared in ''L'Israélite Français'', and the remaining 18 as letters to the editor in ''Courrier de la Moselle''.<ref>{{citation|title=Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650–1860|series=Jewish Culture and Contexts|first=Jay R.|last=Berkovitz|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|year=2011|isbn=9780812200157|page=282|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CXTGK5ZRswwC&pg=PA282}}.</ref> Terquem rejected the [[Talmud]],<ref name="albert"/><ref name="hyman">{{citation|title=The Jews of Modern France|volume=1|series=Jewish communities in the modern world|first=Paula|last=Hyman|publisher=University of California Press|year=1998|isbn=9780520919297|page=72|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7vK-yH_0gSgC&pg=PA72}}.</ref> proposed to codify intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews,<ref name="albert"/> pushed to move the [[sabbath]] to Sunday,<ref name="meyer"/><ref name="hyman"/> advocated using other languages than Hebrew for prayers,<ref name="waterhouse"/> and fought against [[circumcision]],<ref name="glick"/> regressive attitudes towards women,<ref name="meyer"/> and the [[Jewish calendar]].<ref name="meyer"/> However, he had little effect on the Jewish practices of the time.<ref name="glick"/><ref name="hyman"/>

Despite Terquem's calls for reform, and despite having married a Catholic woman and raised his children as Catholic,<ref name="meyer"/> he requested that his funeral be held with all the proper Jewish rites.<ref name="je"/>