Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and Nation PDF
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JEWISH YOUTH IDENTITY and Postwar France in The Modern Jewish Experience Deborah Dash Moore and Marsha L. Rozenblit, editors Paula Hyman, founding coeditor JEWISH YOUTH IDENTITY and Postwar France in Rebuilding Family and Nation DANIELLA DORON INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington & Indianapolis This book is a publication of Manufactured in the United States of America Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Library of Congress Herman B Wells Library 350 Cataloging-in-Publication Data 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA Doron, Daniella, author. Jewish youth and identity in iupress.indiana.edu postwar France : rebuilding family and nation / Daniella Doron. © 2015 by Daniella Doron pages cm — (The Modern All rights reserved Jewish experience) Includes bibliographical No part of this book may be reproduced references and index. or utilized in any form or by any means, ISBN 978-0-253-01741-3 (cloth : alk. electronic or mechanical, including photo- paper)—ISBN 978-0-253-01746-8 (ebook) copying and recording, or by any informa- 1. Jewish youth—France—History—20th tion storage and retrieval system, without century. 2. Jewish children—France— permission in writing from the publisher. History—20th century. 3. Jewish youth— The Association of American University France—Social conditions—20th century. Presses’ Resolution on Permissions 4. Jewish children—France—Social constitutes the only exception to this conditions—20th century. 5. France— prohibition. Civilization—1945– 6. France—Social conditions—1945–1995. I. Title. The paper used in this publication meets the DS135.F83D64 2015 minimum requirements of the American 305.235089'92404409045—dc23 National Standard for Information Sciences 2015017064 Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1992. 1 2 3 4 5 20 19 18 17 16 15 to my parents This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 1 “Their Children? Our Children!” Holocaust Memory in Postwar France 31 2 “A Drama of Faith and Family”: Custody Disputes in Postwar France 74 3 Notre Vie en Commune: The Family versus the Children’s Home 118 4 The Homes of Hope? Trauma, Universal Victimhood, and Universalism 162 5 F rom Competition to Cooperation: Redefining Jewish Identities 198 Conclusion 233 Notes 241 Works Cited 285 Index 299 vii This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It is my pleasure to have the opportunity to thank the many people who have left their imprint, in multiple ways, on this work and my life. Words fall short in expressing my deep gratitude to Marion Kaplan, first my doctoral adviser and now my dear friend, for her care, her time, and her rigorous scholarly example. The thousands of e-mails exchanged over the years, coffee dates on the Upper West Side, and our independent study meet- ings conducted over coffee and a shared black-and-white cookie mark some of my fondest memories of graduate school. Her comments on my work have forced me to refine my writing and thinking; her own scholarship has kindled my initial interest in the field and continues to serve as a source of inspira- tion. As my career has taken me further away from New York than either of us would have ever imagined, Skype dates have replaced coffee dates, and she has remained my first port of call for advice and good cheer. For all of this, Marion will forever have my gratitude, admiration, and lasting friendship. I consider myself tremendously fortunate to have found such a nurturing environment at New York University. Herrick Chapman and Mary Nolan generously read more drafts than they would probably care to remember, and their comments have sharpened the analytical focus of this study. The more I progress in my career, the more fully I appreciate their commitment to men- toring graduate students and the scholarly erudition they display in their own work. I first met Laura Lee Downs in a setting quite far away from Greenwich Village—in the cafes and archives of Paris. Her seminar at the EHESS on “children and war,” our many conversations (both scholarly and otherwise) over wine in Paris and New York, as well her incisive comments have made the research and the writing of this study far more pleasant and intellectu- ix
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