Book Talk: "'Jewish Marshall Plan': the American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France"
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The Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies presents on Friday, November 11, 2022:
ATCJS requests that all in-person attendees wear a mask to protect our vulnerable community members.
Book Talk: "'Jewish Marshall Plan': the American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France"
Date: Friday, November 11, 1-3PM
Location: JHB318 (170 St. George Street, 3rd Floor)
Laura Hobson Faure (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
This talk is a discussion of Laura Hobson Faure's newly-published book, A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: the American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France (in French, Armand Colin, 2013; Indiana University Press, 2022)
Laura Hobson Faure is a professor at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University-Paris 1, where she holds the chair of Modern Jewish history and is a member of the Center for Social History (UMR 8058). She is the author of A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: the American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France (in French, Armand Colin, 2013; Indiana University Press, 2022) and Rescue: The Story of Kindertransport to France and America (forthcoming, Yale University Press). She also co-edited L’Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants et les populations juives au XXème siècle. Prévenir et Guérir dans un siècle de violences (Armand Colin, 2014) and Enfants « sans famille » dans les conflits du XXème siècle, (forthcoming, éditions CNRS).
**This talk will be delivered in-person at JHB318. To attend, please arrive at the venue on Friday, November 11, at 1PM.
