Adam Rayski

In The Choice of the Jews under Vichy, Adam Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. His research in the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, the police, and Philippe Pétain demonstrates the Vichy government's role as a zealous accomplice in the Nazi program of genocide. He documents the efforts and absence of efforts of French Protestant and Catholic groups on behalf of their Jewish countrymen; he also explores the prewar divide between French-born and immigrant Jews, manifested in cultural conflicts and mutual antagonism as well as in varied initial responses to Vichy's antisemitic edicts and actions. Rayski reveals how these Jewish communities eventually set aside their differences and united to resist the Nazi threat.

Le Parti communiste a-t-il livr Manouchian et ses camarades ? Jean J r me, le financier occulte du parti, ou Boris Holban, le responsable militaire immigr , ont-ils t les instruments de cette trahison ? Voil , ex abrupto, dans quels termes sommaires la pol mique tait entretenue ces derni res ann es sur la contribution des immigr s la R sistance fran aise. Il fallait d brouiller ces "affaires"; c'est ici chose faite, force archives judiciaires et polici res in dites et t moignages des principaux acteurs l'appui. Mais reprendre l'enqu te, c' tait aussi analyser la politique de Vichy, qu' clairent singuli rement l'organisation et les m thodes des fameuses Brigades sp ciales des Renseignements g n raux. C' tait enfin montrer les tenants et les aboutissants de la strat gie que d veloppe le PCF dans la France des ann es sombres. De proche en proche, les auteurs rep rent quelques chemins qu'emprunt rent l'int gration des trangers dans la soci t fran aise. Une int gration pay e du prix du sang.

In The Choice of the Jews under Vichy, Adam Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. His research in the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, the police, and Philippe Pétain demonstrates the Vichy government's role as a zealous accomplice in the Nazi program of genocide. He documents the efforts and absence of efforts of French Protestant and Catholic groups on behalf of their Jewish countrymen; he also explores the prewar divide between French-born and immigrant Jews, manifested in cultural conflicts and mutual antagonism as well as in varied initial responses to Vichy's antisemitic edicts and actions. Rayski reveals how these Jewish communities eventually set aside their differences and united to resist the Nazi threat.