Choice Of The Jews Under Vichy
Subtitle: Between Submission And Resistance
Contributors: Francois Bedarida (Foreword); Will Sayers (Translator)
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: July 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780268040215
Subjects: European history: Second World War; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Jewish studies; Second World War, 1939-1945; History; History - General History; History: World; France; Europe - France; Holocaust; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Persecutions; Politics and government
First sentence: The history of the war years in France presents a situation unique on more than one count.
Description: "Based on extensive research into previously unpublished sources, including the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, police prefectures, and Philippe Petain, Adam Rayski clearly demonstrates the Vichy government's role as an accomplice in the Nazi program of genocide. He also explores the sizeable prewar divide between French-born and immigrant Jews. This manifested itself in cultural conflicts and mutual antagonism as well as in varied initial responses to the antisemitic edicts and actions of the Vichy government. Rayski reveals how these communities eventually set aside their differences and united to resist the Vichy-supported Nazi threat."--Jacket.