Publication of the first issue of the RHS issued by the new editorial board headed by Audrey Kichelewski and Jean-Marc Dreyfus
Review of the history of the Holocaust, n°211
“Recounting the Holocaust: 40 years of writings in Le Monde Juif”
The 211th issue of the Journal d'Histoire de la Shoah, first issue from the new editorial board led by Audrey Kichelewski
and Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Recounting the Holocaust: 40 years of personal writings in Le Monde Juif March 15, 2020.
With this issue on the testimonies of the Shoah, the Review of the History of the Shoah enters a new period in its already long existence. The new editorial board of the Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah met for the first time on 27 November 2019 at the Mémorial de la Shoah, under the leadership of Audrey Kichelewski and Jean-Marc Dreyfus, the magazine’s new directors.
Committee members discussed the new direction to be given, while maintaining continuity with previous issues. In particular, it was decided that the journal will be able to accommodate stand-alone articles – and not just thematic issues – and themes for future issues were discussed and agreed upon.
For this 211th issue, a wide selection of testimonies published in the first decades of existence of the journal Le Monde Juif (ancestor of the Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah) is published and analyzed by Judith Lyon-Caen (EHESS).
These first-person accounts evoked undocumented aspects of the persecution or extermination of the Jews, far beyond France. Sometimes they came in support of historical records; or they accompanied the great commemorative events. Extracts from books published abroad also appear in the review: thus the reader encounters Jan Karski, Primo Levi or Leib Rochman. But very diverse in their style and authors, these personal accounts are also often one of the only traces we have of these witnesses, to whom this issue pays tribute by giving to read their writings.
Writing
Editor-in-chief: Audrey Kichelewski (University of Strasbourg/ Institut Universitaire de France) and
Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester/ Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po)
Editorial board: Claire Andrieu (Sciences Po),
Deborah Barton (University of Montreal),
Hélène Dumas (CNRS, IHTP),
Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa)
Laura Hobson Faure (Professor Paris 1),
Laurent Joly (CNRS),
Ophir Levy (Maître de conférence Paris 8),
Judith Lindenberg (MAHJ),
Judith Lyon-Caen (EHESS),
Claire Mouradian (EHESS, HRC),
Simon Perego (Associate Researcher at the Po Science History Centre),
Renée Poznanski (Ben Gurion University)
Fabien Theophilakis (Maître de conférence Paris 1),
Claire Zalc (CNRS, IHMC)
Editor: Jacques Fredj
Writing, layout and production secretariat: Pauline de Ayala
Next issue: “Vichy, the French and the Shoah. Scientific knowledge in the face of historical revisionism» under the direction of Laurent Joly (CNRS).
REVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF SHOAH
The Review of the History of the Shoah is published by the Holocaust Memorial. It is the oldest scientific journal dealing with the Holocaust to have been in continuous operation. It was created in 1946 under the title Le Monde Juif by the team of historians of the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine, under the direction of David Knout. The Review deals with the genocide of the Jews of Europe in all its historical aspects. It also considers the consequences of the destruction of the Jews of Europe on Jewish history.
The only journal of its kind to be published in French, it wants to participate in the most up-to-date research on the Holocaust, both in history and other social sciences, anthropology, sociology, literary studies or memory. Film studies, gender studies, the history of ideas are all disciplines that fall within his sphere of interest. The geographical area covered is Europe as a whole, including countries that remained neutral during the Second World War, but also colonial empires and beyond (USA, Latin America, etc.).
The RHS has published and intends to publish articles on the history of other genocides than the Shoah and is interested in a comparative approach. Under the direction of Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester/Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po) and Audrey Kichelewski (University of Strasbourg/Institut Universitaire de France), the Journal d'Histoire de la Shoah receives articles for publication. Articles are evaluated double and anonymously. It is possible to send contributions in a foreign language, which will be evaluated and, once accepted, translated.
