FR252 Further Reading
Further reading for 2025-26 syllabus:
Week 1. Introduction and historical context
Seán Hand and Steven Katz (eds.), Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945-1955 (New York: New York University Press, 2015)
Robert O. Paxton, Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 (New York: Columbia, 2001)
Michael Marrus and Robert O. Paxton, Vichy France and the Jews (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995)
Julian Jackson, France the Dark Years, 1940-1944 (Oxford: OUP, 2001)
Henry Rousso, Le Syndrome de Vichy (Paris: Seuil, 1987)
Further resources
The Fondation de la Shoah hosts the official archives of Vichy's Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives, now known as the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine. Do have a look at their website, which hosts online information, exhibitions and some digitised archival material.
The British National Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire hosts archives and further information on the Holocaust. You can watch survivors, including those who survived the Lodz ghetto in which Wiesel was interned, giving their testimony on the Centre's website
The Imperial War Museum likewise offers a range of resources linked to its permanent Holocaust collection.
Weeks 2 and 3. Elie Wiesel, La Nuit
Colin Davis, Elie Wiesel's Secretive Texts (1994)
Ellen Fine, Legacy of Night: the literary universe of Elie Wiesel (1982)
Naomi Seidman, 'Elie Wiesel and the Scandal of Jewish Rage' in Jewish Social Studies, 3:1 (Autumn 1996), 1-19.
Weeks 4 and 5. Helene Berr, Journal
Nathan Bracher, ‘Hélène Berr et l'écriture de l'histoire’, French Politics, Culture & Society, 32: 1 (2014), pp. 4-25.
A whole range of resources has been prepared by the Fondation de la Shoah in Paris which are well worth exploring, including the 'Dossier' for schoolchildren
Weeks 7 and 8. Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
Gratton on postmemory and Modiano
Schulte-Nordholt on Photography and Images in Dora Bruder
William VanderWolk, Rewriting the Past: memory, history and narration in the novels of Patrick Modiano (Amsterdam, 1997)
Modiano's Nobel Prize Speech 7 December 2014
Weeks 9 and 10. Yannick Haenel, Jan Karski
Helena Duffy, ‘The Ethics of Metawitnessing in Yannick Haenel’s Jan Karski’, Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, 32:1 (2018), pp, 1-21.
General Further Reading:
Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: crises of witnessing in literature, psychoanalysis and history (London, 1992)
Saul Friedlander (ed.), Probing the Limits of Representation. Nazism and the “Final Solution”, (Cambridge, Mass., 1992)
Seán Hand and Steven Katz (eds.), Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945-1955 (New York: New York University Press, 2015) Especially IntroductionLawrence D. Kritzman (ed.), Auschwitz and After (New York and London, 1995)
Berel Lang (ed.), Writing and the Holocaust (New York, 1988)
Lawrence Langer, The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination (New Haven, 1975)
Henry Rousso, The Haunting Past: history, memory, and justice in contemporary France (Philadelphia, 2002)
Caroline Alice Wiedmer, The claims of memory: representations of the Holocaust in contemporary Germany and France (London, 1999)
Useful internet links include the following:
http://www.memorialdelashoah.org/
http://www.auschwitz.be/
http://www.fondationshoah.org/FMS/spip.php?rubrique2
http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/
