France is the only Western European nation home to substantial
numbers of survivors of the World War I and World War II genocides.
In the Aftermath of Genocide offers a unique comparison of the
country’s Armenian and Jewish survivor communities. By
demonstrating how—in spite of significant differences between
these two populations—striking similarities emerge in the ways
each responded to genocide, Maud S. Mandel illuminates the impact
of the nation-state on ethnic and religious minorities in
twentieth-century Europe and provides a valuable theoretical
framework for considering issues of transnational identity.
Investigating each community’s response to its violent past,
Mandel reflects on how shifts in ethnic, religious, and national
affiliations were influenced by that group’s recent history. The
book examines these issues in the context of France’s long
commitment to a politics of integration and homogenization—a
politics geared toward the establishment of equal rights and legal
status for all citizens, but not toward the accommodation of
cultural diversity.In the Aftermath of Genocide reveals that
Armenian and Jewish survivors rarely sought to shed the obvious
symbols of their ethnic and religious identities. Mandel shows that
following the 1915 genocide and the Holocaust, these communities,
if anything, seemed increasingly willing to mobilize in their own
self-defense and thereby call attention to their distinctiveness.
Most Armenian and Jewish survivors were neither prepared to give up
their minority status nor willing to migrate to their national
homelands of Armenia and Israel. In the Aftermath of Genocide
suggests that the consolidation of the nation-state system in
twentieth-century Europe led survivors of genocide to fashion
identities for themselves as ethnic minorities despite the dangers
implicit in that status.
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