Harnessing the holocaust

Zusatztext "Wolf has written a fine study of memory, ethnicity, and assimilation in postwar France. She makes a valuable contribution not only to recent French history but also to Holocaust studies and the history of memory." Informationen zum Autor Joan B. Wolf is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. Klappentext "This subtle, scholarly, discerning book is more than a study of "the politics of the Holocaust" in post-World War II France; it is also an examination of how a series of events, starting with the Six-Day War in 1967, led to drastic changes in the relationship between French Jews and the French Republic."--Stanley Hoffmann, Foreign Affairs "[T]he book's strengths are manifold. Not only does Wolf thoroughly explain the Holocaust's emergence as a significant theme in French public life, but she also expertly shows the ways in which Jews and non-Jews interpreted the past differently, leading to misunderstandings between them."--Journal of Modern History Zusammenfassung The story of how the Nazi genocide of the Jews became an almost daily source of controversy in French politics. Joan Wolf argues that from the Six-Day War throughout the trial of Maurice Papon in 1997-98, the Holocaust developed from a Jewish trauma into a metaphor for oppression.

Product details

• Authors: Wolf Joan, Joan B Wolf, Joan B. Wolf
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2004
• EAN: 9780804748896
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4889-6
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 236 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)