RT Article
T1 ‘L’antisémitisme est l’auxiliaire obligatoire du fascisme’: Jewish communists, antifascism and antisemitism in France, 1944-1960s
JF Fascism
VO 9
IS 1/2
SP 75
OP 97
A1 Grumberg, Zoé
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1859499104
AB This article studies the discursive construction by Jewish communists of the struggle against antisemitism in France between 1944 and the 1960s. It shows that after the Holocaust, without denying the racial aspect of Nazi antisemitism, Jewish communists adopted the French Communist Party and the ussr’s antifascist analysis of antisemitism according to which antisemitism was the corollary of fascism, a strategy to divide people and the working class. However, after the War, Jewish communists’ fight against antisemitism was also shaped by their experiences as Jews during the Holocaust, by their commitment to defend Jewish interests and by their desire to be (re)integrated into the French nation. The author argues that through a specific Jewish and communist antifascist fight against antisemitism, Jewish communists managed to remain faithful to their multiples allegiances - to Jews, to the pcf, and to French universalism - and to reach multiples audiences that identified, at least temporarily, with antifascism.
K1 Antifascism
K1 Communists
K1 France
K1 Holocaust
K1 Jews
K1 Memory
K1 Resistance
DO 10.1163/22116257-20201184