Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine. Série "Documents" No. 3 : La Condition des Juifs en France sous l'Occupation Italienne
Paris: Editions du Centre, 1946. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 174, [2]pp. Original printed wraps with printer's device on front cover. Scarce and heart-gripping work written by the well renown French-Russian historian of anti-Semitism, Léon Poliakov. The author's interest in tracing the roots of anti-Semitism stemmed from his involvement in the founding in 1944 of the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC). Poliakov's work was not only engaged in a broader desire to understand European anti-Semitism after the war. In part, he saw the value of his research as revealing the biases that motivated anti-Semitic accusations. In doing so, it recovered the humanity of its victims, but also the biases that underlay the relations of Jews and Christian society in Europe from the classical to early modern periods. This work focuses on the Jewish condition in France under the Italian occupation and is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w photographic reproductions of documents. Some age wear on wraps with spine and edges sunned, fore-edge of front cover slightly chipped, and fore-edge of back cover partly chipped. Lower front cover bumped, thus affecting pages throughout. Very minor age-toning along paper margin. Text in French. Wraps in overall fair to good-, interior in good+ condition. fair. Item #26568
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