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The Holocaust and French historical culture, 1945-65 / Johannes Heuman.

Title
The Holocaust and French historical culture, 1945-65 / Johannes Heuman.
Author
Heuman, Johannes
Publication
London ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Description
viii, 211 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
"The post-war handling of the Holocaust has been a troublesome issue all over Europe. In France, the genocide has been associated to varying degrees with the conflicting legacy of the Vichy regime. It has also posed a significant challenge to the French republican reluctance to differentiate between citizens according to their ethnicity or religious affiliation. Yet its heritage also touches on solidarity between Jews and non-Jews, democracy, and opposition to Nazism. The Holocaust and French Historical Culture, 1945-65 investigates the institutional development of Holocaust remembrance in France in the two decades following the end of the War. Paris was home to one of the key European initiatives to document and commemorate the genocide the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine. By analysing the earliest Holocaust narratives and their reception in France, this book provides a new understanding of the origins of the Holocaust remembrance that today occupies a central place in French and European identity."--Back cover.
Series Statement
Holocaust and its contexts
Uniform Title
Holocaust and its contexts
Subject
  • Centre de documentation juive contemporaine
  • 1939 - 1958
  • 1939-1945 (andra världskriget)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > France > Historiography
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Foreign public opinion, French
  • Collective memory > France
  • France > Ethnic relations
  • France > History > 1945-1958
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-206) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- French-Jewish Relations and Historical Culture -- Nationalisation and Isolation -- Europeanisation and Historicisation -- Universalisation and Global Remembrance -- The Holocaust Enters French Historical Culture -- Concluding Discussion.
ISBN
  • 1137529326
  • 9781137529329
OCLC
  • 908913854
  • SCSB-11140480
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library