Jewish youth and identity in postwar France : rebuilding family and nation / Daniella Doron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doron, Daniella, author.

Series:

Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)

The Modern Jewish experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish youth--France--History--20th century.

Jewish youth.

Jewish children--France--History--20th century.

Jewish children.

Jewish youth--France--Social conditions--20th century.

Jewish children--France--Social conditions--20th century.

France--Civilization--1945-.

France.

France--Social conditions--1945-1995.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Highlights the debates surrounding family and identity as French Jewish communities slowly recovered and reestablished their place in the French nation." - Choice At the end of World War II, French Jews faced a devastating demographic reality: thousands of orphaned children, large numbers of single-parent households, and families in emotional and financial distress. Daniella Doron suggests that after years of occupation and collaboration, French Jews and non-Jews held contrary opinions about the future of the nation and the institution of the family. At the center of the disagreement was what was to become of the children. Doron traces emerging notions about the postwar family and its role in strengthening Jewish ethnicity and French republicanism in the shadow of Vichy and the Holocaust. "Doron's book appears at a key moment. Its emphasis on children emerging from hunger, displacement and war should render it standard reading for policymakers, NGOs and others interested in shaping the destinies of today's abandoned children." - French History "Raises fundamental questions for the understanding of not only Jewish reconstruction in post-World War II France, but also Holocaust memory, postwar French society and culture and the history of postwar European families and children." - French Politics, Culture and Society "Doron's deftly argued and well researched book is an important intervention into a growing body of scholarship on the postwar decade. She convincingly documents the central role that the rehabilitation of Jewish children and the reconstruction of Jewish families played in post-war French Jewish reconstruction and underscores the importance of the decade following the war in shaping Jewish historical evolution in France." -Maud Mandel, author of Muslims and Jews in France

Contents:

"Their children? Our children!" Holocaust memory in postwar France

A drama of faith and family: custody disputes in postwar France

Notre vie en commune: the family versus the children's home

The homes of hope? Trauma, universal victimhood, and universalism

From competition to cooperation: redefining Jewish identities.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253017468

0253017467

OCLC:

966765220