The Anti-Semitic Poster in France during the Occupation
Publisher
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Berg international
Parution date
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2008
EAN
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9782917191125
Number of pages
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172
Description
Providing a unique political history of anti-Semitic propaganda in France during the Occupation, L’Affiche Antisémite traces the impact of posters as well as broadsides, banners, and billboards on public opinion. Afoumado also provides an analysis of each print, from its artistic to its technical aspects. Indeed, hundreds of illustrations reveal how the French were confronted in their daily lives with a carefully designed view of the world in which a mythical Jewish enemy was portrayed as a political threat to the nation and hence had to be expelled.
Underpinned by meticulous research and some striking visual images of “the Jewish enemy,” Afoumado’s study convincingly demonstrates how this type of propaganda helped the non-Jewish population willingly accept the new anti-Semitic measures introduced by the occupying forces and the Vichy government.
Author
Diane Afoumado : Diane Afoumado is a historian who specializes in Holocaust studies. She has taught history at the University of Paris X and collaborated on several research projects, including one with renowned historian and attorney Serge Klarsfeld on the French internment camps. She also contributed to a collection edited by Michael Pari, Repicturing the Second World War: Representations in Film and Television, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008. She now works for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
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