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Denaturalized - How Thousands Lost Their Citizenship and Lives in Vichy France (Hardcover)
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Denaturalized - How Thousands Lost Their Citizenship and Lives in Vichy France (Hardcover)
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“In Denaturalized, Claire Zalc combines the precision of the
scholar with the passion of a storyteller…This is a deftly
written book. Zalc combines in an accessible style (smoothly
translated by Catherine Porter) the stories of people trapped
within a bureaucracy that was as obsessed, perhaps, with clearing
files as with hunting Jews. In other words, Zalc reminds us how
cruel the banality of indifference could be.”—Wall Street
Journal Winner of the Prix d’histoire de la justice A leading
historian radically revises our understanding of the fate of Jews
under the Vichy regime. Thousands of naturalized French men and
women had their citizenship revoked by the Vichy government during
the Second World War. Once denaturalized, these men and women,
mostly Jews who were later sent to concentration camps, ceased
being French on official records and walked off the pages of
history. As a result, we have for decades severely underestimated
the number of French Jews murdered by Nazis during the Holocaust.
In Denaturalized, Claire Zalc unearths this tragic record and
rewrites World War II history. At its core, this is a detective
story. How do we trace a citizen made alien by the law? How do we
solve a murder when the body has vanished? Faced with the absence
of straightforward evidence, Zalc turned to the original
naturalization papers in order to uncover how denaturalization
later occurred. She discovered that, in many cases, the very
officials who granted citizenship to foreigners before 1940 were
the ones who retracted it under Vichy rule. The idea of citizenship
has always existed alongside the threat of its revocation, and this
is especially true for those who are naturalized citizens of a
modern state. At a time when the status of millions of naturalized
citizens in the United States and around the world is under greater
scrutiny, Denaturalized turns our attention to the precariousness
of the naturalized experience—the darkness that can befall those
who suddenly find themselves legally cast out.
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Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2020 |
Authors: |
Claire Zalc
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Translators: |
Catherine Porter
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 40mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
408 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-98842-2 |
Subtitles: |
French
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Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-674-98842-6 |
Barcode: |
9780674988422 |
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