Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and Nation. By Daniella Doron. The Modern Jewish Experience. Edited by Deborah Dash Moore and Marsha L. Rozenblit.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. Pp. xviii+310. $45.00 (cloth); $44.99 (e-book).

2017 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 450-451
Author(s):  
Sylvia Schafer
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Indiana University ◽  
Jewish Experience ◽  
Jewish Youth

Daniella Doron, Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and Nation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. xv + 309 pp.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Future ◽  
Jewish Youth ◽  
Jews In France

This chapter reviews the book Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and Nation (2015), by Daniella Doron. Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France examines how the French Jews shifted from immediate relief and rehabilitation activities following the Holocaust to longer-term efforts aimed at establishing communal stability and unity. Doron highlights the important role played by Jewish youth in these efforts, arguing that they can serve as a lens through which to study larger concerns such as the future of Jews in France, the reconstruction of families, and ideas about national identity in the reestablished republic. Doron shows that there were competing visions for reconstruction and that hope for the future was often complicated by anxiety and an underlying sense of crisis.

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