Renée Poznanski. <i>Propaganda and Persecution: The French Resistance and the “Jewish Question</i>.<i>”</i>Translated by Lenn J. Schramm
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Abstract
In this abridged and translated version of her original book, Renée Poznanski offers readers a unique opportunity to think about the French Resistance and its stance on Jewish persecution. The author is not concerned with the measure of antisemitism in France or within the French Resistance, but rather the French social imaginary as it elaborated various responses to the so-called “Jewish question.” Instead of a black or white approach to antisemitism in this period, Poznanski uses close reading of the underground press and broadcasts from London to discover how they dealt with Nazi and Vichy persecutions against Jews in France. In the opening of Propaganda and Persecution, the author argues that “[w]hat is at issue here is the Jews’ place in the French cultural imaginary—not among the overt antisemites but among those who committed themselves, at their mortal peril, to fighting against the camp that harbored the antisemites” (xv). Poznanski tackles this question in chronological order, by starting in the 1930s, where she highlights the centrality of the “Jewish question” to texts—so much so that this Judeophobic rhetoric appeared in the writings of people who were ostensibly opposed to antisemitism. Naturally, the proliferation of antisemitic literature was sped up by the creation of the Vichy regime, normalized by its many laws and decrees targeting Jews, and supported by the historical legacy of “reasonable antisemitism” in France. It was into this landscape that the early resistance organizations, both metropolitan and overseas, were forced to decide how they could, on the one hand, wage war on Nazi narratives, and on the other, win over French public opinion. To be clear, one did not need to oppose the antisemitic measures of the day to be opposed to Nazism—we know from decades of research, including Poznanski’s, that many resisters had no ethical issue with many of Vichy’s antisemitic laws, beyond the fact that they seemed to be imported from Nazi Germany; however, all resistance organizations felt the need to counter Nazi propaganda (and Vichy propaganda that seemed to support Nazi goals). Thus, we find early references to antisemitism in Resistance messaging, often couched in broader attacks on the Nazis.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.005 |
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