La vengeance d'un Juif clandestin
La vengeance d'un Juif clandestin

Author: Maurice Ferares

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-03-21

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1291792554

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A l'ete 1942 dans l'Amsterdam occupe, le jeune Juif Jacob Wijnkoper plonge dans la clandestinite. Pendant de longues annees il devra survivre dans l'angoisse permanente d'etre capture par les Allemands. Rien ne lui sera epargne. Il devra se cacher longtemps dans une epave d'autobus en compagnie d'un marginal alcoolique, dans des jardins ouvriers avec des deserteurs allemands de la Wehrmacht, et reussira finalement a se faire interner comme lepreux avec l'aide d'une prostituee et d'un medecin d'un hopital d'Amsterdam. Avec sa femme et son ami d'enfance Simon ils partent tous trois en Palestine. Jacob s'y retrouve implique dans le nettoyage ethnique de villes et villages palestiniens. Sous les yeux de Julia et Simon le modeste garcon d'Amsterdam se metamorphosera en un assassin cruel. Lorsque le pere de Jacob reapparait en Palestine le cours du destin ne pourra plus etre evite."

After the Deportation
After the Deportation

Author: Philip Nord

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-12-03

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 1108478905

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Examines the change in memory regime in postwar France, from one centered on the concentration camps to one centered on the Holocaust.

Doctors at War
Doctors at War

Author: Ellen Hampton

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2023-03

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0807179442

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Doctors at War tells the stories of physicians in France working to impede the German war effort and undermine French collaborators during the Occupation from 1940 to 1945. Determined to defeat the Third Reich’s incursion, one group of prominent Paris doctors founded a medical network to treat injured Resistance fighters who they then secretly transported to Allied countries to avoid forced labor in Germany. Another team of medics organized a cabal focused on intelligence gathering and sabotage that became one of the largest in wartime France, even after the Gestapo arrested and imprisoned its leaders. Deported to concentration camps, these physicians continued to frustrate Nazi efforts by rendering aid and keeping their fellow prisoners alive. Others joined rural guerrilla camps to care for the young conscripts fighting to block German reinforcements from reaching Normandy after the D-Day landing. These stories, assembled here for the first time, add a crucial dimension to the history of Occupied France. Written for both historians and general readers of World War II history, Doctors at War stands as a dramatic, character-driven account of physicians’ courage and resilience in the face of evil. It serves as a window into life under a fascist regime and the travails of doctors who negotiated the terrifying moral labyrinth that was the German military’s occupation of France.

Jews and Gender in Liberation France
Jews and Gender in Liberation France

Author: K. H. Adler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-08-07

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1139435507

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This book takes a new look at occupied and liberated France through the dual prism of race, specifically Jewishness, and gender - core components of Vichy ideology. The imagining of liberation and the potential post-Vichy state, lay at the heart of resistance strategy. Their transformation into policy at liberation forms the basis of an enquiry that reveals a society which, while split deeply at the political level, found considerable agreement over questions of race, the family and gender. This is explained through a new analysis of republican assimilation which insists that gender was as important a factor as nationality or ethnicity. A new concept of the 'long liberation' provides a framework for understanding the continuing influence of the liberation in post-war France, where scientific planning came to the fore, but whose exponents were profoundly imbued with reductive beliefs about Jews and women that were familiar during Vichy.

Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Author: Edward W. Said

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 9780674003026

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With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays offers evidence of how much the fully engaged critical mind can contribute to the reservoir of value, thought, and action essential to our lives and culture.

Judaeo-Christian Intellectual Culture in the Seventeenth Century
Judaeo-Christian Intellectual Culture in the Seventeenth Century

Author: A.P. Coudert

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9401146330

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MURIEL MCCARTHY This volume originated from a seminar organised by Richard H. Popkin in Marsh's Library on July 7-8, 1994. It was one of the most stimulating events held in the Library in recent years. Although we have hosted many special seminars on such subjects as rare books, the Huguenots, and Irish church history, this was the first time that a seminar was held which was specifically related to the books in our own collection. It seems surprising that this type of seminar has never been held before although the reason is obvious. Since there is no printed catalogue of the Library scholars are not aware of its contents. In fact the collection of books by late seventeenth and early eighteenth century European authors on, for example, such subjects as biblical criticism, political and religious controversy, is one of the richest parts of the Library's collections. Some years ago we were informed that of the 25,000 books in Marsh's at least 5,000 English books or books printed in England were printed between 1640 and 1700.

Stigmata
Stigmata

Author: Hélène Cixous

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-31

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1134680996

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Hèléne Cixous -- author, playwright and French feminist theorist -- is a key figure in twentieth-century literary theory. Stigmata brings together her most recent essays for the first time. Acclaimed for her intricate and challenging writing style, Cixous presents a collection of texts that get away -- escaping the reader, the writers, the book. Cixous's writing pursues authors such as Stendhal, Joyce, Derrida, and Rembrandt, da Vinci, Picasso -- works that share an elusive movement in spite of striking differences. Along the way these essays explore a broad range of poetico-philosophical questions that have become characteristic of Cixous' work: * love's labours lost and found * feminine hours * autobiographies of writing * the prehistory of the work of art Stigmata goes beyond theory, becoming an extraordinary writer's testimony to our lives and times.