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Tag: Vichy Regime

0 History Politics

Jewish Lives · 4 Jun

Léon Blum, France's first Jewish prime minister, significantly influenced French society through socialist policies, despite facing intense antisemitism and imprisonment during the Vichy regime.

0 Holocaust

A Legend of Innocence

Daniel Solomon in Tablet · 28 Jun 2022

Eric Zemmour's failed presidential campaign highlighted a ongoing debate in France over the country's role in the Holocaust and collaboration with the Vichy regime.

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Memories of Morocco

Lawrence Rosen in Jewish Review of Books · 6 Apr 2022

"Memories of Morocco", edited by Joseph Chetrit, Jane S. Gerber, and Drora Arussy, explores the Jewish experience in Morocco.

0 History Culture

The House of Fragile Things

James McAuley in Tablet · 7 Oct 2021

"The House of Fragile Things" offers a poignant narrative about the French-Jewish elite families, delving into how their cultural heritage and identity were challenged and dismantled during the Nazi occupation of France.

0 Holocaust History

Nazi collaborator monuments around the world

Lev Golinkin in Forward · 27 Jan 2021

The Forward published an investigative project documenting the presence of monuments worldwide to individuals involved in the Holocaust, such as Philippe Ptain in Canada and Roman Shukhevych in Edmonton, who were Nazi collaborators responsible for atrocities against Jews and others during World War II.

0 Holocaust Communities

Victim Enough? The Jews of North Africa During the Holocaust

Lawrence Rosen in Jewish Review of Books · 27 Mar 2019

During the Holocaust, North African Jews faced discrimination and persecution under French and Italian racial laws, economic disenfranchisement, and internment in camps.

0 Holocaust History

Was the French Resistance Jewish?

Renée Poznanski in Tablet · 3 May 2016

During World War II, French Jews played a significant role in the Resistance in France.

0 Philosophy Antisemitism

A Certain Late Discovery

Samuel Moyn in Jewish Review of Books · 18 Mar 2013

Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher known for deconstruction, was not easily categorized as a Jewish thinker despite his Algerian Jewish heritage.