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Weil, Simone
(1909-43)
   French religious writer. She was born in Paris. She gave up teaching philosophy to become a factory worker. In 1936 she joined the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. After the Nazi invasion of France she worked as a farm labourer in the south. She spent a period in the US, but returned to France to join the Resistance. She was fiercely critical of Judaism.

Dictionary of Jewish Biography. .