5. Blessing of the Bled

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Where Fascism and Colonialism Meet
5. 1. Between Metropole and French North Africa 19
6. 2. The Persecution of Jews in Libya Between 1938 and 1945 50
7. 3. The Implementation of Anti-Jewish Laws in French West Africa 76
8. Part II. Experiences of Occupation, Internment, and Race Laws
9. 4. “Other Places of Confinement” 95
10. 5. Blessing of the Bled 113
11. 6. The Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives in Tunisia and the Implementation of Vichy’s Anti-Jewish Legislation 132
12. Part III. Narrative and Political Reverberations
13. 7. Eyewitness Djelfa 149
14. 8. The Ethics and Aesthetics of Restraint 168
15. 9. Fissures and Fusions 185
16. Part IV. Commentary
17. 10. Recentering the Holocaust (Again) 207
18. 11. Paradigms and Differences 214
19. 12. Sephardim and Holocaust Historiography 220
20. 13. Stages in Jewish Historiography and Collective Memory 229
21. 14. A Memory That Is Not One 239
22. 15. Intersectional Methodologies in Holocaust Studies 245
23. Acknowledgments 253
24. Contributors 255
25. Notes 259
26. Bibliography 299
27. Index 325