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Joan B. Wolf - Harnessing the Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in France - 9780804748896 - V9780804748896
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Harnessing the Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in France

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Description for Harnessing the Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in France Hardback. The story of how the Nazi genocide of the Jews became an almost daily source of controversy in French politics. Joan Wolf argues that from the Six-Day War throughout the trial of Maurice Papon in 1997-98, the Holocaust developed from a Jewish trauma into a metaphor for oppression. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (L) ELT / TEFL; (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.

Harnessing the Holocaust presents the compelling story of how the Nazi genocide of the Jews became an almost daily source of controversy in French politics. Joan Wolf argues that from the Six-Day War through the trial of Maurice Papon in 1997-98, the Holocaust developed from a Jewish trauma into a metaphor for oppression and a symbol of victimization on a wide scale.

Using scholarship from a range of disciplines, Harnessing the Holocaust argues that the roots of Holocaust politics reside in the unresolved dilemmas of Jewish emancipation and the tensions inherent in the revolutionary notion of universalism. Ultimately, the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804748896
SKU
V9780804748896
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About Joan B. Wolf
Joan B. Wolf is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University.

Reviews for Harnessing the Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in France
"This subtle, scholarly, discerning book is more than a study of "the politics of the Holocaust" in post-World War II France; it is also an examination of how a series of events, starting with the Six-Day War in 1967, led to drastic changes in the relationship between French Jews and the French Republic."
Stanley Hoffmann
Foreign Affairs
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