Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
22 (1992) 115-146
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
Abstract:
Analyzes the reactions of French Jewish communal leaders after the promulgation of the first statute on Jews (October 1940) by the Vichy government and the emergence of the antisemitic campaign in the press. The strategy of the Central Consistory was based on the conviction that the statute was imposed on the French authorities by the Germans. Asserts that the misconception was upheld in order to safeguard the idea of the integration of the Jews in French society. Jewish leaders maintained cordial personal relations with French officials. They sent frequent protests against discrimination while adopting a legalistic position of obedience and loyalty. Consistory authorities made great efforts to refute antisemitic allegations in the press and to amend the anti-Jewish legislation by emphasizing the wrong done to France by the terms of the statute. Notes that concern for legality and for adaptation to the new situation typified not only the Jewish leaders but a large proportion of Jewish public opinion in 1940-41.
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