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Writing Occupation: Jewish Émigré Voices in Wartime France

Writing Occupation: Jewish Émigré Voices in Wartime France

Elsky, Julia

Hardcover

Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Literary CriticismFrench History

ISBN10: 1503613674
ISBN13: 9781503613676
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Dec 8 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Among the Jewish writers who emigrated from Eastern Europe to France in the 1910s and 1920s, a number chose to switch from writing in their languages of origin to writing primarily in French, a language that represented both a literary center and the promises of French universalism. But under the Nazi occupation of France from 1940 to 1944, these Jewish émigré writers--among them Irène Némirovsky, Benjamin Fondane, Romain Gary, Jean Malaquais, and Elsa Triolet--continued to write in their adopted language, even as the Vichy regime and Nazi occupiers denied their French identity through xenophobic and antisemitic laws. In this book, Julia Elsky argues that these writers reexamined both their Jewishness and their place as authors in France through the language in which they wrote.

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