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Book SynopsisOffers a comparison of the country's Armenian and Jewish survivor communities. This book suggests that the consolidation of the nation-state system in Europe led survivors of genocide to fashion identities for themselves as ethnic minorities despite the dangers implicit in that status.
Trade Review“France is a perfect setting for this exciting comparative study. Not only is it one of the places where both Armenians and Jews settled or re-settled after displacement, but it is a country which, due to its long history as a nation-state and its constantly reaffirmed ‘republican’ ideology, offers a particularly interesting case for an analysis of transnationalism-as-lived.”—Nancy L. Green, author of
Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York“This extraordinarily well-conceived book enriches scholarship on French Armenians and Jews by exploring how genocide shaped communal life and the processes by which national and ethnic identities converged in twentieth-century France.”—Leslie P. Moch, author of
Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Note on Transliteration xiii
Introduction 1
1. Orphans of the Nation: Armenian Refugees in France 19
2. The Strange Silence: France, French Jews, and the Return to Republican Order 52
3. Integrating into the Polity: The Problem of Inclusion after Genocide 86
4. Diaspora, Nation, and Homeland among Survivors 118
5. Maintaining a Visible Presence 151
6. Genocide Revisited: Armenians and the French Polity after World War II 178
Conclusion 202
Notes 209
Bibliography 291
Index 311
