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Book SynopsisA magisterial history of the French Resistance during World War II that offers a comprehensive exploration of the most significant issue in that period’s social imaginary: the ‘Jewish question’. Renee Poznanski analyses the discourse around Jews that pervaded the Resistance’s propaganda, while examining the fate of Jews under Vichy and after.
Trade Review“RenÉe Poznanski is one of the finest scholars of our time on the subject of France during the Holocaust and World War II. Her central question here—How much did the French Resistance care about Jews and antisemitism?—is timely, and she presents a mountain of evidence to support her thesis.”—Ethan Katz, University of California, Berkeley
“This book adds to our understanding of the Resistance, the persecution of the Jews, and the clandestine press in ways likely to make it a fundamental work for future scholarship.”—
Holocaust and Genocide StudiesTable of Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Prologue: The Loss of Moral and Ideological Markers
- 1 The “Jewish Problem” in an Age of Suspicion
- 2 The Range of Rebuttals
Part I. We Are All Patriots
- 3 The Assault on the Jews
- 4 Across the Channel, on the Defensive
- 5 Above All—Don’t Bring Back Blum
- 6 France Cannot Be Muzzled or Seduced
- 7 Variations in the Shadow of the Comintern
- 8 A Careful Choice of Words
- 9 Christians and Jews, Jews and Resistance Activists
Part II. The Curtain Rises
- 10 “The Springtime of Liberty”
- 11 The Shock of the Yellow Star
- 12 Summer 1942: Swings in Public Opinion
- 13 The Crime of Lèse-Humanité
- 14 A Plan for Extermination
Part III. The Judeo-Gaullists in London
- 15 Under the Sway of the French Goebbels
- 16 No One Is Safe from Deportation
- 17 From London to Algiers
Part IV. The Judeo-Bolsheviks of France
- 18 Variations on Silence
- 19 The Specter of Philosemitism
Part V. The Sense of Being Abandoned
- 20 All Humanity Rises Up against the Murderers
- 21 The Earth Didn’t Shake
- Epilogue: Jewish Voices in a Strange Silence
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
