April 2024
Propaganda and Persecution: The French Resistance and the “Jewish Question”
After a resounding defeat, France officially left the war and a new government, retaining some sovereignty over part of the country and settled in the city of Vichy put an end to the Republican regime and collaborated with the Nazi occupiers. As a result, the Jews were faced with a double persecution, led by the German occupier as well as by the Vichy regime. Marginalization and exclusion led to internment before deportation to the East and extermination. A propaganda war…
Find out more »Atrocities’ Truth Tellers: Armenian and Jewish Victim Testimony in Interwar Europe
Annual Pell Lecture. This event will be recorded. Writing about the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961, Hannah Arendt recalled two murder trials from the 1920s in Europe. In 1921, Soghomon Tehlirian, an Armenian man allegedly living as a student in Berlin, assassinated Mehmet Talaat, the former Ottoman Minister of the Interior, for his responsibility in the genocide of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. Five years later, in Paris, Sholem Schwarzbard, a Ukrainian Jew who had recently become…
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