Editing Maxime Rodinson (section)

=== Family ===
The parents of Maxime Rodinson were Russian-[[Polish Jew]]ish immigrants who were members of the [[French Communist Party|Communist Party]].<ref>[http://lhomme.revues.org/index1546.html L'homme. Jean-Pierre Digard: Maxime Rodinson (1915-2004)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727213653/http://lhomme.revues.org/index1546.html |date=2011-07-27 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.republique-des-lettres.fr/10484-maxime-rodinson.php La République des Lettres. Noël Blandin. Biographie : Qui est Maxime Rodinson?]</ref> They arrived in France at the end of the 19th century as [[refugee]]s from [[pogroms]] in the [[Russian Empire]]. His father was a clothing trader who set up a business making waterproof clothing in the [[Yiddish]]-speaking part of [[Paris]], called the [[:fr:Pletzl|Pletzl]], in the district of the [[Le Marais|Marais]]. They became port-of-call for other Russian exiles, most of them revolutionaries hostile to the [[Tsarist regime]]. His father tried to unionise and organize educational and other services for his [[working-class]] [[immigrant]] group. In 1892, he helped to establish a community library, containing hundreds of works in [[Yiddish]], Russian, and French.

In 1920, the Rodinsons joined the [[French Communist Party|Communist Party]] and as soon as France recognized the [[Russian SFSR]], in 1924, they applied for [[Soviet]] citizenship. Rodinson grew up in a fervently [[Communist]], non-religious and [[anti-Zionist]] family.<ref name ="Johnson"/>