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Author Freadman, Anne, 1944- author.

Title Holding on and holding out : Jewish diaries from wartime France / Anne Freadman
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 262 pages)
Contents Introduction -- 1. Narratives of identity -- 2. The place of the self : the diary of Raymond-Raoul Lambert -- 3. Making it last : the diary of Benjamin Schatzman -- 4. Narratives of time -- Coda : the self in history -- Appendix : Saül Castro's diary, 10 December 1941
Summary "Examining the diary as a particular form of expression, Holding On and Holding Out provides unique insights into the experience of Jews during World War II in France. Unlike memoirs and autobiographies that reconstruct particular personal events, diaries, by contrast, record daily events without the benefit of retrospect and describe events as they unfold. This book assess how each individual used the diary to record their daily life under persecution; each was waiting for some end, be it with hope or despair. Each individual used the diary to bear witness not only to the terror of their own lives, but also to the lives and suffering of others. Several used their writing as a memorial to people who were killed. All use their writing to assert: I live, I will have lived. The book concludes by considering each diarist as selves in history, investigating how their reflections on their experience are informed by the times in which they had lived before the advent of persecution."-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Holocaust
Jewish writing
Nazis
Occupied France
Second World War
Vichy France
World War II
autobiography
concentration camps
diaries
diary writing
identity
life writing
memoirs
memories
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Lambert, Raymond-Raoul, 1894-1943 -- Diaries
Schatzman, Benjamin, 1877-1942 -- Diaries
SUBJECT Schatzman, Benjamin, 1877-1942 fast
Lambert, Raymond-Raoul, 1894-1943 fast
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France -- Personal narratives
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Personal narratives
Jews -- France -- Diaries -- History and criticism
Jews -- France -- Biography
Jews -- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
French diaries
Jews
Jews -- Social conditions
Juden
Tagebuch
France
Frankreich
Genre/Form Electronic books
diaries.
Diaries
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Personal narratives
Diaries.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Journaux intimes.
Récits personnels.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781487536442
1487536445
9781487536435
1487536437
Other Titles Jewish diaries from wartime France