'Each Algerian Must Feel Palestinian': 1967, 1968, and Muslim/Jewish Relations in France

Streaming video requires RealPlayer to view.The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.Maud Mandel is an Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at Brown University. She specializes in modern Jewish history and has focused particularly on the 20th-century French Jewish experience.Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security StudiesEvent webpage, streaming video, event photo

In the aftermath of genocide: Armenians and Jews in twentieth century France.

This dissertation compares the impact of the genocides of World War I and II on the ethnic and national affiliations of Armenian and Jewish survivors. Specifically, it focuses on Armenians and Jews in France, the only Western European nation to provide homes to substantial survivor communities. The intended victims had been attacked at many levels. Not only had they been uprooted from homes and communities, but they also had faced an ideological onslaught that had dubbed them unfit to live in their own societies. The principal concern of this study, then, involves determining how survivors responded to this attack after the persecutions had ended. Did these experiences challenge previously held notions of faith, communal solidarity, and national identity? And, if so, how did they respond to those challenges at both the individual and communal levels? I argue that in the immediate aftermaths of their respective genocides, neither Armenian refugee populations in France nor the much longer established Jewish communities responded to the systematic attacks against them by fundamentally questioning the possibility of living as national minorities in larger nation states. While both experienced a surge of support for their own nationalistic movements and while some opted to leave France for their homelands, the overwhelming majority chose to remain in their dispersed communities without engaging in much sustained public dialogue on the question. The nation in which they settled did much to ensure that such discussions remained muted. A long tradition of state-centered and assimilationist models of government in France's civic self-definition shaped the incorporation of all ethnic and religious minorities into the state. Armenian and Jewish genocide survivors were no exceptions, and the tradition of intense cultural conformity shaped how they came to terms with their genocidal pasts. A comparative study of these two cases, then, directs our attention to the importance of context in shaping minority culture. If Armenians and Jews faced distinctly different conditions during and after their respective genocides, a comparison between them nevertheless suggests that the common denominator, integration into the French state, was the single largest factor in shaping their communities in the aftermath.Ph.D.Ethnic studiesEuropean historyModern historySocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/131271/2/9840597.pd

The JDC at 100 A Century of Humanitarianism

The history of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee from its origins in 1914 through its first century.Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Medical Welfare in Interwar Europe: The Collaboration between JDC and OZE-TOZ Organizations -- 2. JDC in Minsk: The Parameters and Predicaments of Aiding Soviet Jews in the Interwar Years -- 3. The First American Organization in Soviet Russa: JDC and Relief in the Ukraine, 1920-1923 -- 4. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Programs in the USSR, 1941-1948: A Complicated Partnership -- 5. DORSA and the Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940-1945 -- 6. Laura Margolis and JDC Efforts in Cuba and Shanghai: Sustaining Refugees in a Time of Catastrophe -- 7. "Joint Fund Teheran": JDC and the Jewish Lifeline to Central Asia -- 8. Destination Australia: The Roles of Charles Jordan and Walter Brand -- 9. Imported from the United States? The Centralization of Private Jewish Welfare after the Holocaust: The Cases of Belgium and France -- 10. Behind the Iron Curtain: The Communist Government in Poland and Its Attitude toward the Joint's Activities, 1944-1989 -- 11. Years of Survival: JDC in Postwar Germany, 1945-1957 -- 12. JDC Activity in Hungary, 1945-1953 -- 13. JDC and Soviet Jews in Austria and Italy -- Contributors -- IndexThe history of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee from its origins in 1914 through its first century.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries

Materialism: the good, the bad, and the ugly

International audienceMaterialism has a generally held connotation that is associated with character deficiencies, self-centeredness, and unhappiness, and most extant research views materialism as having a negative influence on well-being. In this article, we review and synthesise research that supports both positive and negative outcomes of behaviours associated with materialism. We conceptualise materialism in terms of the motives underlying materialistic behaviour, and situate our review and synthesis of materialism research within this context. In doing so, we document the utility of a motives-based view of materialism and propose research agendas that arise from this motives-based perspective