A "Jewish Marshall Plan": The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France

✍ Scribed by Laura Hobson Faure

Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 370
Series: The Modern Jewish Experience
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

While the role the United States played in France's liberation from Nazi Germany is widely celebrated, it is less well known that American Jewish individuals and organizations mobilized to reconstruct Jewish life in France after the Holocaust. In A "Jewish Marshall Plan," Laura Hobson Faure explores how American Jews committed themselves and hundreds of millions of dollars to bring much needed aid to their French coreligionists.

Hobson Faure sheds light on American Jewish chaplains, members of the Armed Forces, and those involved with Jewish philanthropic organizations who sought out Jewish survivors and became deeply entangled with the communities they helped to rebuild. While well intentioned, their actions did not always meet the needs and desires of the French Jews.

A "Jewish Marshall Plan" examines the complex interactions, exchanges, and solidarities created between American and French Jews following the Holocaust. Challenging the assumption that French Jews were passive recipients of aid, this work reveals their work as active partners who negotiated their own role in the reconstruction process.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Images
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Before the “Jewish Marshall Plan”: Considering the Diaspora
2. Jewish Encounters in Liberation France: Chaplains, Soldiers, Survivors
3. Emerging from Catastrophe: American and French Jewish Welfare in the Immediate Postwar Period
4. Long-Term Reconstruction: The End of French Dependence?
5. American Jewish Organizations and the Postwar World: A Political Presence
6. “From Charity to Social Work”: American Jewish Aid and the Reform of French Social Work
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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