Nadia Malinovich
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781904113409
- eISBN:
- 9781800342637
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781904113409.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter focuses on the expansion of the Jewish press, the development of a lively Jewish art and music scene, and the strengthening of the interfaith movement. It discloses the creation of a ...
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This chapter focuses on the expansion of the Jewish press, the development of a lively Jewish art and music scene, and the strengthening of the interfaith movement. It discloses the creation of a wide variety of journals of differing Zionist, literary, and religious orientations that marked an important change in contemporary French Jewish life. It also investigates the journals that served as a vehicle to discuss new developments in the Jewish associational and cultural life of the day and provided a forum to discuss diverse aspects of Jewish culture and history. The chapter discusses the prominence of Jewish artists in the international Ecole de Paris as another important development in Jewish cultural life during the 1920s. It also describes French Jews that formed musical societies and choruses to perform Jewish music, from traditional religious compositions to Yiddish folk songs, in public settings.Less
This chapter focuses on the expansion of the Jewish press, the development of a lively Jewish art and music scene, and the strengthening of the interfaith movement. It discloses the creation of a wide variety of journals of differing Zionist, literary, and religious orientations that marked an important change in contemporary French Jewish life. It also investigates the journals that served as a vehicle to discuss new developments in the Jewish associational and cultural life of the day and provided a forum to discuss diverse aspects of Jewish culture and history. The chapter discusses the prominence of Jewish artists in the international Ecole de Paris as another important development in Jewish cultural life during the 1920s. It also describes French Jews that formed musical societies and choruses to perform Jewish music, from traditional religious compositions to Yiddish folk songs, in public settings.
Lisa Moses Leff
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479835041
- eISBN:
- 9781479814954
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479835041.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter examines the work of the restitution agency called the Sous-Commission des livres, the arm of the Commission de récupération artistique that handled the restitution of the estimated ten ...
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This chapter examines the work of the restitution agency called the Sous-Commission des livres, the arm of the Commission de récupération artistique that handled the restitution of the estimated ten million books that the Germans had looted in France during the war. Like the larger organization of which it was a part, the leaders of the book restitution authority were imbued with a republican spirit; indeed, the hundreds of reports archived in their files at the Archives nationales testify that they made no explicit distinction between “Jewish books” and “non-Jewish books,” and certainly no distinction whatsoever between Jewish book owners and non-Jewish book owners. Nevertheless, largely because of the practical issues involved in the restitution of books, these French authorities wound up doing much that would ultimately help Jewish libraries rebuild after the war in ways that would prove beneficial for rebuilding French Jewish cultural life.Less
This chapter examines the work of the restitution agency called the Sous-Commission des livres, the arm of the Commission de récupération artistique that handled the restitution of the estimated ten million books that the Germans had looted in France during the war. Like the larger organization of which it was a part, the leaders of the book restitution authority were imbued with a republican spirit; indeed, the hundreds of reports archived in their files at the Archives nationales testify that they made no explicit distinction between “Jewish books” and “non-Jewish books,” and certainly no distinction whatsoever between Jewish book owners and non-Jewish book owners. Nevertheless, largely because of the practical issues involved in the restitution of books, these French authorities wound up doing much that would ultimately help Jewish libraries rebuild after the war in ways that would prove beneficial for rebuilding French Jewish cultural life.
Seán Hand and Steven T. Katz (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479835041
- eISBN:
- 9781479814954
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479835041.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europe’s Jewish communities after the war ended. And unlike many other European nations in which the ...
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Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europe’s Jewish communities after the war ended. And unlike many other European nations in which the majority of the Jewish population perished, France had a significant postwar Jewish community that numbered in the hundreds of thousands. This book offers new insight on key aspects of French Jewish life in the decades following the end of World War II. How Jews had been treated during the war continued to influence both Jewish and non-Jewish society in the post-war years. The book examines the ways in which moral and political issues of responsibility combined with the urgent problems and practicalities of restoration, and it illustrates how national imperatives, international dynamics, and a changed self-perception all profoundly helped to shape the fortunes of post-war French Judaism. The book offers a variety of perspectives on Jewish studies, modern and contemporary history, literary and cultural analysis, philosophy, sociology, and theology. It establishes multiple connections between such different areas of concern as the running of orphanages, the establishment of new social and political organizations, the restoration of teaching and religious facilities, and the development of intellectual responses to the Holocaust.Less
Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europe’s Jewish communities after the war ended. And unlike many other European nations in which the majority of the Jewish population perished, France had a significant postwar Jewish community that numbered in the hundreds of thousands. This book offers new insight on key aspects of French Jewish life in the decades following the end of World War II. How Jews had been treated during the war continued to influence both Jewish and non-Jewish society in the post-war years. The book examines the ways in which moral and political issues of responsibility combined with the urgent problems and practicalities of restoration, and it illustrates how national imperatives, international dynamics, and a changed self-perception all profoundly helped to shape the fortunes of post-war French Judaism. The book offers a variety of perspectives on Jewish studies, modern and contemporary history, literary and cultural analysis, philosophy, sociology, and theology. It establishes multiple connections between such different areas of concern as the running of orphanages, the establishment of new social and political organizations, the restoration of teaching and religious facilities, and the development of intellectual responses to the Holocaust.
