The Choice of the Jews under Vichy : Between Submission and Resistance / Adam Rayski ; translated by Will Sayers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rayski, Adam, author.

Contributor:

Sayers, William, translator.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Persecutions--France.

Jews.

Jews--France--Politics and government.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--France.

World War, 1939-1945.

France--Ethnic relations.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2015]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

In The Choice of the Jews under Vichy, Adam Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. His research in the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, the police, and Philippe Petain demonstrates the Vichy government's role as a zealous accomplice in the Nazi program of genocide. He documents the efforts and absence of efforts of French Protestant and Catholic groups on behalf of their Jewish countrymen; he also explores the prewar divide between French-born and immigrant Jews, manifested in cultural conflicts and mutual antagonism as well as in varied initial responses to Vichy's antisemitic edicts and actions. Rayski reveals how these Jewish communities eventually set aside their differences and united to resist the Nazi threat.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue

PART ONE: 1940-1942: The Logic of Persecution

Chapter One: The First Anti-Jewish Measures

Chapter Two: The Consistory between Religion and Politics

Chapter Three: Preliminaries to a Massacre

Chapter Four: The Creation of the UGIF, the "Compulsory Community"

Chapter Five: The Yellow Star

Chapter Six: July 1942

Chapter Seven: The Inhuman Hunt in the Southern Zone

Chapter Eight: Drancy

PART TWO: 1942-1944: To Resist or Submit?

Chapter Nine: "Night and Fog"

Chapter Ten: People of the Shadows

Chapter Eleven: Do Not Forget the Children

Chapter Twelve: "Intermezzo," or the Italian Reprieve

Chapter Thirteen: Jewish Perceptions of the War

Chapter Fourteen: 1943

Chapter Fifteen: Jews, French and Resistant

Chapter Sixteen: The Jewish Scouts Take Up Arms

Chapter Seventeen: The Jewish Resistance in All Its Variety

Chapter Eighteen: CRIF

Chapter Nineteen: A Time for All Fears and All Hopes

Conclusion: The Weight of the Present and of the Future

Afterword: The Twenty-First Century

Interviews and Testimony

Acronyms of Agencies, Organizations, and Movements

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Rayski, Adam The Choice of the Jews under Vichy

ISBN:

9780268158231

0268158231

9780268091835

0268091838

OCLC:

1373985296