A 'Jewish Marshall Plan'

When and Where

Friday, November 11, 2022 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
In-person event, JHB 318
Jackman Humanities Building
170 St George Street, Toronto ON M5R 2M8

Speakers

Laura Hobson Faure (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Description

A 'Jewish Marshall Plan': The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France

This talk is a discussion of Laura Hobson Faure's newly-published book, A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: the American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France (in French, Armand Colin, 2013; Indiana University Press, 2022)

Laura Hobson Faure is a professor at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University-Paris 1, where she holds the chair of Modern Jewish history and is a member of the Center for Social History (UMR 8058). She is the author of A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: the American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France (in French, Armand Colin, 2013; Indiana University Press, 2022) and Rescue: The Story of Kindertransport to France and America (forthcoming, Yale University Press). She also co-edited L’Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants et les populations juives au XXème siècle. Prévenir et Guérir dans un siècle de violences (Armand Colin, 2014) and Enfants « sans famille » dans les conflits du XXème siècle, (forthcoming, éditions CNRS).

Sponsors

Anne Tannenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies

Map

170 St George Street, Toronto ON M5R 2M8

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