Language:
French
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Les Nouveaux Cahiers
Angaben zur Quelle:
101 (1990) 44-49
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
French literature History and criticism
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Disagrees with Claude Lanzmann's statement [in an article in "Babylon" 2 (1987)] that the North African Jews living in France do not want to talk about the Holocaust. Surveys literature and memoirs by French Jewish writers originating from North Africa, such as Albert Memmi, Annie Fitoussi, Katia Rubinstein, Paule Darmon, and Guy Sitbou, in whose work Holocaust themes appear. Albert Memmi, himself a witness of this period in Tunisia, touches in his memoirs on the racial laws in North Africa during the Vichy regime. Concludes that for some of the writers the Shoah is the unifying element between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, while for others it is an element of separation and exclusion.
Note:
As reflected in North African Jewish literature.
URL:
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