Del 15 - Berghahn Monographs in French Studies

National Policy, Global Memory

The Commemoration of the a Righteousa From Jerusalem to Paris, 1942-2007

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-07-25
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDel 15 i Berghahn Monographs in French Studies
Antal sidor228
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781785332548

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Trained in the social sciences, Sarah Gensburger is a sociologist of memory and a historian of the Holocaust. She is currently a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS-ISP) and the author of Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews (Indiana University Press, 2015), co-author of Nazi Labor Camps in Paris (Berghahn Books, 2011) and co-editor of Resisting Genocides: The Multiple Forms of Rescue (Columbia University Press, 2011).

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: From "The Righteous among Nations" to the "Righteous of France:"Chapter 1. Memory as an Instrument of Foreign Policy?Chapter 2. Memory Entrepreneurs and the French SpaceChapter 3. Memory Public Policy and TransfersChapter 4. The National Day as a Public Policy InstrumentChapter 5. Social Norms and Memorial CategoriesChapter 6. Memory Policy and InstitutionsEpilogue: The "Righteous of France" in the PantheonAppendix A: Methodology and CorpusAppendix B: Detailed References of Official TextsBibliographyIndex

"Gensburger's work which provides a wealth of detail about the individual actors, as well as the interest groups, lobbying for the recognition of non-Jews who came to the aid of Jewish victims of Nazi policies throughout World War II-era Europe.... [It] artfully demonstrates how memory studies benefits from political scientific analysis, and as such ties the social sciences together in the field of Holocaust Remembrance." International Social Science Review