Please join us at the UCI Jewish Center for a talk by Renée Poznanski titled "The French Resistance and the Persecution of the Jews during WWII"
* This event is co-sponsored by the Ethics Center (Social Sciences)
Monday, April 8 | 4:00 pm
Humanities Gateway #1010
Renée Poznanski is Professor emerita in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University – a department she has created and headed during several years and former head of the Simone Veil Research Institute for Contemporary European Studies.
She has published extensively on Jews in France during World War II: her research examines their daily lives, relations between Jews and non-Jews, Rescue and Resistance of the Jews and the impact of memory on the historiography of this period. Her book The Jews in France during the World War II, (University Press of New England, 2001; published originally in French) has been awarded the Jacob Buchman Prize for the Memory of the Holocaust and a French enlarged version has been reedited by the CNRS Editions in 2018. Her book on Propaganda and Persecution: The French Resistance and the “Jewish Question”, (in French, Fayard, 2008; in Hebrew, Yad Vashem, 2022, and in English, Wisconsin UP, 2024) has been awarded the 2009 Henri Hertz prize by the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris. She has been a fellow at The Remarque Institute (NYU), the Center for Advanced Studies (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, DC), Sciences Po (Paris), the EHESS (Paris) and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University). Her last book (with Denis Peschanski) focuses on the Drancy internment camp (Drancy, un camp en France, Paris: Fayard). She is presently writing a book on Revisiting the Resistance of the Jews in France during the Second World War.