National Policy, Global Memory

The Commemoration of the "Righteous" from Jerusalem to Paris, 1942-2007
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-254-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 487 g

Reihe: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gensburger, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Antisemitismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: 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 Space

Chapter 3. Memory Public Policy and Transfers    

Chapter 4. The National Day as a Public Policy Instrument    

Chapter 5. Social Norms and Memorial Categories

Chapter 6. Memory Policy and Institutions

Epilogue: The “Righteous of France” in the Pantheon

Appendix A: Methodology and Corpus    

Appendix B: Detailed References of Official Texts

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gensburger, Sarah
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).