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Adam Rayski - The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance - 9780268040215 - V9780268040215
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The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance

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Description for The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance Hardcover. The Choice of the Jews under Vichy is written from the joint perspective of a historian and a participant in the events he describes. An organizer of the communist faction of the Jewish resistance in France, Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. Translator(s): Sayers, Will. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 762.

In The Choice of the Jews under Vichy, Adam Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. His research in the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, the police, and Philippe Pétain demonstrates the Vichy government’s role as a zealous accomplice in the Nazi program of genocide. He documents the efforts and absence of efforts of French Protestant and Catholic groups on behalf of their Jewish countrymen; he also explores the prewar divide between French-born and immigrant Jews, manifested in cultural conflicts and mutual antagonism as well as in ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268040215
SKU
V9780268040215
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Adam Rayski
Adam Rayski (1913–2008) left Poland in 1932 for Paris, where he became a full-time journalist working for the Neie Presse, a leftist Yiddish-language daily newspaper. From July 1941 until the end of World War II he served as national secretary of the Jewish Section of the French Communist Party and headed the Union des Juifs pour la Résistance et l'Entraide, ... Read more

Reviews for The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance
"The publication of an English translation of Adam Rayski's book ... is a welcome addition.... Rayski's book remains valuable largely for the valuable primary source material it brings to the fore.... [T]he University of Notre Dame Press with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum should be commended for having made this work available in an excellent English translation.” —American Historical ... Read more

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