Language:
English
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Contemporary History
Angaben zur Quelle:
40,2 (2005) 237-259
Keywords:
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Reparations
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jewish property
Abstract:
As a result of Nazi and Vichy policies, all Jews living in Paris were forced, in one way or another, to leave their homes between fall 1940-spring 1944. Jewish returnees in 1944-45 generally faced a cold welcome. Their homes and possessions had been seized by the Germans, by French authorities, or by their neighbors; the new republican authorities were not eager to restore Jewish property or to compensate the Jewish owners. Voluntary associations devoted to "protecting" wartime acquisitions threatened that continuing restitution of Jewish property would lead to a rise in antisemitism. Examines petitions to the authorities by Jewish returnees regarding their properties, including their wording and motives. The early petitions were couched in terms of French republicanism. They show that, for Jewish returnees, the expropriation of their property was emblematic of their abandonment by the state and society.
DOI:
10.1177/0022009405051552
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