Renée Poznanski

Renée Poznanski (Hebrew: רנה פוזננסקי, born April 26, 1949) is a French-born Israeli  historian specialized in the Holocaust and the Jewish Resistance in France. 

  She teaches at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. As of June 2025, she has an h-index of 14 and an i10-index of 18.

Selected works

Articles

  Publications List (year in descending order) 
 Poznanski, R. (2023). For a history of the Jews integrated into the history of France: an interview with Renée Poznanski. Archives Juives, 56(2), 63‒69.
 Poznanski, R. (2020). Transnational perspectives on Jews in the resistance. Fighters across frontiers, 109‒131.
 Poznanski, R. (2020). The Jewish Question Versus the “Jewish Problem:" Sartre Amid a Strange Silence. Sartre, Jews, and the Other: Rethinking Antisemitism, Race, and Gender, 1(75).
 Poznanski, R. (2020). The French and Jewish persecution during Occupation. Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah, 212(2), 183‒214.
 Poznanski, R. (2019). Drancy après Drancy. Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire. Revue pluridisciplinaire de la Fondation Auschwitz, 129, 112‒134.
 Poznanski, R. (2018). Stand up for the image of France or follow French opinion: the external resistance and the persecution of the Jews. European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 25(2), 263‒276.
 Poznanski, R. (2018). Born in Paris… Ego-Histories of France and the Second World War: Writing Vichy, 267‒282.
 Poznanski, R. (2017). Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and Nation. The American Historical Review, 122(2), 591‒592.
 Poznanski, R. (2015). Pétain’s Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, 1940–1942. French Politics, Culture & Society, 33(3), 140‒143.
 Poznanski, R. & Pinkerton, A. (2013). The BBC in South Asia: from the end of empire to the Cold War. Diasporas and Diplomacy, 140‒156.

Books

  Publications List (year in descending order) 
 Poznanski, R. Propaganda and Persecution: The French Resistance and the “Jewish Question”, University of Wisconsin Press, 2024. 


 Poznanski, R. The Holocaust in France, Oxford University Press, 2014.
 Poznanski, R. Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, 2014. (Co-authored with Saperstein M. et al.)

Related pages

 Shira Klein
 Havi Dreifuss
 Shimon Redlich
 Saul Friedländer
 Izabella Tabarovsky

Footnotes

References

Category:Jewish academics
Category:French historians
Category:Historical studies
Category:Israeli historians