Harnessing the Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in France, Joan B. Wolf (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004), 264 pp., 49.50
As historian Henry Rousso has asserted, “the past—or a certain reading of the past—can mistakenly be seen ... as a refuge, at a time when the present is not understood and the future not foreseen.”1 Joan Wolf’s work chronicles this “reading of the past,” or more specifically, the meaning and use of...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 295-297 |
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| Summary: | As historian Henry Rousso has asserted, “the past—or a certain reading of the past—can mistakenly be seen ... as a refuge, at a time when the present is not understood and the future not foreseen.”1 Joan Wolf’s work chronicles this “reading of the past,” or more specifically, the meaning and use of France’s Vichy past by Jews and non-Jews after World War II. Wolf traces the paths of public narrative about the Holocaust in France, landmarked by a series of provocative national events, beginning with the 1967 Six-Day War (“the seminal event in the development of public discourse on the Holocaust” in post-Vichy France [p. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dci026 |