| Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945-1955 Contributor(s): Hand, Seán (Editor), Katz, Steven T. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1479835048 ISBN-13: 9781479835041 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - History - History | Holocaust - History | Jewish - General |
| Dewey: 305.892 |
| LCCN: 2014044423 |
| Series: Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.10 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Katz, Steven T.: - Steven T.Katzis Slater Professor of Jewish and Holocaust Studies andformerDirector of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University. His many publications includeTheHolocaust in Historical Context. Hand, Sean: - Seán Hand is Professor of French at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Emmanuel Levinas, Alter Ego: The Critical Writings of Michel Leiris, and Michel Leiris: Writing the Self.Katz, Steven T.: - Steven T. Katz is Slater Professor of Jewish and Holocaust Studies and former Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University. His many publications include The Holocaust in Historical Context. |