French contemporary history; Jewish contemporary history; Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Issues of History and Memory

Renée Poznanski is the Yaakov and Poria Avnon Professor of Holocaust Studies in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University – a department she has created and headed during several years. She has published extensively on Jews in France during World War II: her research examines their daily lives, relations between Jews and non-Jews, Rescue and Resistance of the Jews and the impact of memory on the historiography of this period. Her book The Jews in France during the World War II, (University Press of New England, 2001) has been awarded the Jacob Buchman Prize for the Memory of the Holocaust. Her last book on The Propaganda of the Resistance and the Persecution of the Jews, (Fayard, 2008) has been awarded the 2009 Henri Hertz prize by the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris. She has been a fellow at The Remarque Institute (NYU), the Center for Advanced Studies (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, DC), Sciences Po (Paris), the EHESS (Paris) and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University). Her last book on the Drancy internment camp (with Denis Peschanski) has been published in 2015 (Paris: Fayard). She is presently writing a book on the Resistance of the Jews in France during the Second World War.

Books:

Renée Poznanski, Denis Peschanski, Drancy en France: de la Cité de la Muette au “camp des Juifs”, Paris, Fayard, 2015.

Renée Poznanski (ed.), Jacques Biélinky, Journal 1940-1942. Un journaliste juif à Paris sous l’Occupation, Paris, Éditions du CNRS and Cerf, sept. 2011, (First edition 1992).

Renée Poznanski, Propagandes et persécutions, La Résistance et le “problème juif”, Paris, Fayard, 2008.

Renée Poznanski, Les Juifs en France, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, New pocket edition (in French), January 2005, Pluriel, Hachette-Littératures, Paris (First edition in 1994 ; English edition in 2001 ; Hebrew edition in 1999; Renewed Edition with a Postface, CNRS Editions, 2018).

Articles:

« Quelle résistance, quelle survie : Réflexions sur les choix des Juifs en France sous l’occupation » in François Marcot and Pierre Laborie (eds), Les comportements sous l’occupation en France, Presses universitaires de Rennes, Forthcoming 2015.

Renée Poznanski, « The Jewish Communists in France during WWII : Resistance and Identity » in Norman J.W. Goda (ed.), Jewish Histories of the Holocaust, New Transnational Approaches, New York, Oxford : Berghahn Press, 2014, pp. 325-348.

Renée Poznanski, « Rescue of the Jews and the Resistance in France: from History to Historiography », French Politics, Culture and Society, 30-2, Summer 2012, pp. 9-32.

Renée Poznanski, “ ‘Nobody is protected from Deportation’: The Free French in London on the Persecution of the Jews”, Holocaust Studies, 18-2/3, Summer/Autumn 2012, pp. 163-188.

Renée Poznanski, “La propagande de la France Libre et le ‘problème juif’ ”, Le Débat, 164, mars-avril 2011, pp. 185-189.

Renée Poznanski, “The Holocaust in France.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies. Ed. David Biale. New York: Oxford University Press, online.

Political parties
French Political Culture – BA seminar
Between History and Politics : the Functions of Collective Memory – MA seminar
Patterns of Resistance : the example of France during WWII.
with Dani Filc : The communist movement in the XXth century : ideology, politics and culture.
France during WWII : History and Memory
Political Parties
War and Genocide in the 20th Century: Cinematographic representation