Rewriting the History of Jewish Dispossession with Sarah Gensburger
Newly discovered archives tell the forgotten story of systematic housing dispossession that fundamentally reshaped post-war Paris. In this episode, Sarah Gensburger discusses Appartements témoins, a microhistory that reconstructs the process by which over 20,000 Jewish tenants were stripped of their rental rights by the City of Paris. This groundbreaking book challenges the pre-existing narrative of widespread French resistance to antisemitism, fundamentally altering our understanding of French complicity and opportunism during and after the Holocaust.
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