Harnessing the Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in France

by Joan B. Wolf

Harnessing the Holocaust presents the compelling story of how the Nazi genocide of the Jews became an almost daily source of controversy in French politics. Joan Wolf argues that from the Six-Day War through the trial of Maurice Papon in 1997-98, the Holocaust developed from a Jewish trauma into a metaphor for oppression and a symbol of victimization on a wide scale.

Using scholarship from a range of disciplines, Harnessing the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804748896
• ISBN13: 9780804748896
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.5"