Language:
French
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Aethiopica
Angaben zur Quelle:
11 (2008) 148-172
Keywords:
Lifchitz, Deborah
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Describes the life of the Jewish ethnologist and linguist Déborah Lifszyc, who was a specialist on magic practices in Ethiopia and in the Sahara. She was born in 1907 in Kharkov (Russia), and went to Paris in 1927 to continue her studies. Inter alia, relates her struggle to acquire French citizenship. It was granted to her in 1937 after many attempts, but was revoked in 1940 according to a law which cancelled all naturalizations granted after 1930. The Commission for revision of naturalizations opened a file on her. By the time she was arrested in 1942, the Commission had decided to reinstate her citizenship. It was finally granted in 1943, but Lifszyc had already been murdered in Auschwitz. Discusses her life in Paris between 1940-42. As a Jew, she was expelled from her academic position in 1940 and hidden by her colleague and friend, Michel Leiris. She apparently participated in the Musée des Hommes resistance network, and was arrested and deported either because she was in the Résistance or because she was Jewish.
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