Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945-1955 / / ed. by Steven T. Katz, Seán Hand.

• MitwirkendeR: Cairns, Lucille,; Chaouat, Bruno,; Doron, Daniella,; Ghiles-Meilhac, Samuel,; Hand, Seán,; Judaken, Jonathan,; Kaplan, Edward K.,; Leff, Lisa Moses,; Mandel, Maud,; Suleiman, Susan Rubin,; Weinberg, David,; Winter, Jay,
• HerausgeberIn: Hand, Seán,; Katz, Steven T.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies Series ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europe’s Jewish communities after the war ended. And unlike many other European nations in which the majority of the Jewish population perished, France had a significant post-war Jewish community that numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945–1955 offers new insight on key aspects of French Jewish life in the decades following the end of World War II.How Jews had been treated during the war continued to influence both Jewish and non-Jewish society in the post-war years. The volume examines the ways in which moral and political issues of responsibility combined with the urgent problems and practicalities of restoration, and it illustrates how national imperatives, international dynamics, and a changed self-perception all profoundly helped to shape the fortunes of postwar French Judaism.Comprehensive and informed, this volume offers a rich variety of perspectives on Jewish studies, modern and contemporary history, literary and cultural analysis, philosophy, sociology, and theology.With contributions from leading scholars, including Edward Kaplan, Susan Rubin Suleiman, and Jay Winter, the book establishes multiple connections between such different areas of concern as the running of orphanages, the establishment of new social and political organisations, the restoration of teaching and religious facilities, and the development of intellectual responses to the Holocaust. Comprehensive and informed, this volume will be invaluable to readers working in Jewish studies, modern and contemporary history, literary and cultural analysis, philosophy, sociology, and theology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Revival of French Jewry in Post- Holocaust France: Challenges and Opportunities -- 2. The Encounter between “Native” and “Immigrant” Jews in Post- Holocaust France: Negotiating Difference -- 3. Centralizing the Political Jewish Voice in Post- Holocaust France: Discretion and Development -- 4. Post- Holocaust Book Restitutions: How One State Agency Helped Revive Republican Franco- Judaism -- 5. Lost Children and Lost Childhoods: Memory in Post- Holocaust France -- 6. Orphans of the Shoah and Jewish Identity in Post- Holocaust France: From the Individual to the Collective -- 7. Jewish Children’s Homes in Post- Holocaust France: Personal Témoignages -- 8. Post- Holocaust French Writing: Reflecting on Evil in 1947 -- 9. Léon Poliakov, the Origins of Holocaust Studies, and Theories of Anti- Semitism: Rereading Bréviaire de la haine -- 10. André Neher: A Post-Shoah Prophetic Vocation -- 11. René Cassin and the Alliance Israélite Universelle: A Republican in Post- Holocaust France -- About the Contributors -- Index