472 Pages
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Routledge
472 Pages
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Routledge
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The involvement of Vichy France with Nazi Germany's anti-Jewish policy has long been a source of debate and contention. At a time when France, after decades of denial, has finally acknowledged responsibility for its role in the deportation and murder of 75,000 Jews from France during the Holocaust, Richard H. Weisberg here provides us with a comprehensive and devastating account of the French... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: On the Continuing Myth of Vichy; Chapter 2 Léon Blum, The “Stranger” at Riom: Legalized Ostracism and Vichy’s Political Trial; Chapter 3 The Basic Scheme of Ostracism; Chapter 4 The Special Treatment of Jewish Legal Professionals; Chapter 5 Barthélemy: A Catholic Prewar Liberal Is Called to Vichy; Chapter 6 The Fight to Control the Legal Fate of Jews: Administrators versus Magistrates; Chapter 7 Out-Naziing the Masters; Chapter 8 Property Law; Chapter 9 The Professional Lives of Private Lawyers; Chapter 10 Reforming the Courts, Reforming the Law: Denationalization, Special Sections, et al.; Chapter 11 Why Lawyers Underperformed: Xenophobia, Catholicism, and the Talmudic Outsider;
Biography
Richard H. Weisberg is the Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University and the author, most recently , of Poethics, and Other Strategies of Law and Literature.
