CARON, VICKI
Uneasy Asylum: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-1942: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-42 (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1999. XI, 605 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. This book, which draws on a rich array of primary sources and archival materials, offers the first major appraisal of French responses to the Jewish refugee crisis after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. It explores French policies and attitudes toward Jewish refugees from three interrelated vantage points: government policy, public opinion, and the role of the French Jewish community. The author demonstrates that Jewish refugees in France were not treated in the same manner as other foreigners, in part because of foreign policy considerations and in part because Jewish refugees had a distinctive socioeconomic profile. By examining the socioeconomic and political factors that informed French refugee policy in the 1930's, the author presents overwhelming evidence that Vichy's anti-Jewish measures were not merely the work of a few antisemitic zealots in the administration, nor did they stem solely from the desire of Marshal Petain's government to find scapegoats for the military defeat of 1940. ISBN: 9780804733120
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