{"product_id":"postholocaust-france-and-the-jews-19451955-9781479835041","title":"PostHolocaust France and the Jews 19451955","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite 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, 19451955 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis astute and wide-ranging collection captures multiple dimensions of French Jews reactions after World War II to a society that simultaneously had delivered 76,000 of them to death yet saved almost nine-tenths of those who had been born in France. Appearing at a time when the existence of a French Jewish community seems imperiled once more, this book is especially instructive. -- Peter Hayes,Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003eThis important and much-needed volume brings together an impressive collection of international scholars to tell the complex and fascinating story of postwar France. It is a story of destruction and reconstruction, despair and hope, memory and desire. Not only does this book help us to understand the convoluted relationship between France and the Jews, it deftly enriches our understanding of sociopolitical renewal within the broader context of European transnationalism. -- Aaron W. Hughes,author of The Study of Judaism: Identity, Authenticity, Scholarship\u003cbr\u003eIn shining a light on the early post-war period, this readable and thought-provoking volume resonates with recent Anglophone scholarly contributions by Shannon Fogg and Leora Auslander on the work of the French restitution committee in the late 1940s. * Journal of Jewish Studies *\u003cbr\u003eErudite and eloquent, the collection overcomes the constraints of a decennial approach, encouraging us to reflect on the changing historical relationship between Jews and the state, and illustrating consistently how decisions taken at this time affect Jews in contemporary France. Above all, it paints a poignant and vivid picture of a community that, in the aftermath of calamity, sought to combine new and existing tactics to rebuild for the future. * French History *\u003cbr\u003eThis book should be essential reading for scholars of the Jewish dimension of French culture in the twentieth century. * French Studies *\u003cbr\u003eThis edited volume examines the reconstruction of Jewish life in France after the Holocaust. Focusing on the first ten years after the war, editors Hand and Katz bring together diverse scholars whose essays will engage students and scholars of French and Jewish history.Cohesive and thought provoking, this book offers new paths of inquiry on a decade of critical change in France. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents             1. The Revival of French Jewry in Post- Holocaust France:     Challenges and Opportunities 26     David Weinberg     2. Th e Encounter between \"Native\" and \"Immigrant\" Jews     in Post- Holocaust France: Negotiating Diff erence 38     Maud Mandel     3. Centralizing the Political Jewish Voice in Post- Holocaust     France: Discretion and Development 58     Samuel Ghiles- Meilhac     4. Post- Holocaust Book Restitutions: How One State Agency     Helped Revive Republican Franco- Judaism 71     Lisa Moses Leff     5. Lost Children and Lost Childhoods: Memory in     Post- Holocaust France 85     Daniella Doron     6. Orphans of the Shoah and Jewish Identity in     Post- Holocaust France: From the Individual     to the Collective 118     Susan Rubin Suleiman     7. Jewish Children's Homes in Post- Holocaust France:     Personal T.moignages 139     Lucille Cairns     8. Post- Holocaust French Writing: Refl ecting on Evil in 1947 156     Bruno Chaouat     vi | Contents     9. L.on Poliakov, the Origins of Holocaust Studies, and     Th eories of Anti- Semitism: Rereading Br.viaire     de la haine 169     Jonathan Judaken     10. Andr. Neher: A Post- Shoah Prophetic Vocation 193     Edward K. Kaplan","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409072202071,"sku":"9781479835041","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/postholocaust-france-and-the-jews-19451955-9781479835041","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}