Title: Rescue as resistance : how Jewish organizations fought the Holocaust in France /
Authors: Lazare, Lucien.
Publisher: Columbia University Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Jews Persecutions France.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) France; World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance France.; World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue France.; France Ethnic relations.
Abstract: Details the formation and nature of many French-Jewish resistance groups, looking at them from social, political, cultural, budgetary, and religious positions, and highlights especially those that rescued children.
Contents: Foreword / Saul Friedlander -- pt. I. The Rising Danger. 1. France from 1938 to June 1940 and the Problem of Foreign Nationals. 2. The Jews in France in 1938-1939. 3. The Uniqueness of Jewish Resistance -- pt. II. Organized Jewish Reactions From June 1940 to July 1942. 4. Jewish Assistance Organizations. 5. The Youth Movements. 6. From Social, Political, and Cultural Action to the Military Option. 7. The Jewish Communist Organizations. 8. The Consistory and Other Religious Associations. 9. The Particular Case of Jewish Children -- pt. III. Jewish Clandestine Action from August 1942 to the Liberation. 10. The Establishment of Underground Networks. 11. The Rescue of Jewish Children. 12. The Jewish Underground: Solidarity and Vitality. 13. The Primacy of Tendencies Toward Unity and the Dynamism of Spiritual Life. 14. The Budgets of the Jewish Resistance. 15. The Groundwork of the Postwar Community. 16. The Armed Struggle.