National Policy, Global Memory
Subtitle: The Commemoration of the Righteous from Jerusalem to Paris, 1942-2007
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781785332548
Subjects: Righteous gentiles in the holocaust; World war, 1939-1945, jews; World war, 1939-1945, france; Memorials; Memory; France, history, german occupation, 1940-1945
Description: Since 1963, the state of Israel has awarded the title of “Righteous among the Nations” to individuals who risked their lives sheltering Jews during the Holocaust. This distinction remained solely an Israeli initiative until the late 1990s, when European governments began developing their own national categories, the most prominent of which was the “Righteous of France,” honoring those who protected Jews during the Vichy regime. In National Policy, Global Memory, Sarah Gensburger uses this dramatic episode to lend a new perspective to debates over memory and nationhood. In particular, she works to combine two often divergent disciplines—memory studies and political science—to study “memory politics” as a form of public policy.--