Sarah Gensburger

National Policy, Global Memory: The Commemoration of the righteous from Jerusalem to Paris, 1942-2007

Buch

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 stu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78533-254-8
EAN: 9781785332548
Produktnummer: 19847715
Verlag: Berghahn Books Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 228 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.6 cm 489 g
Reihenbandnummer: 15
Gewicht: 489

Über den Autor

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).