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...

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