Publication of the first issue of the RHS from the new editorial committee led by Audrey Kichelewski and Jean-Marc Dreyfus
Review of the history of the Shoah, No. 211
«Telling the Holocaust: 40 years of writing in Le Monde Juif»
The 211th issue of the Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah, first issue emanating from the new editorial committee led by Audrey Kichelewski
and Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Telling the Holocaust: 40 years of personal writings in Le Monde Juif appears on March 15, 2020.
With this issue on the testimonies of the Shoah, the Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah enters a new period in its already long existence. The new editorial committee 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 new editors of the journal.
The committee members discussed the new directions to be given, while maintaining continuity with previous issues. In particular, they decided that the journal could host isolated articles – and not only thematic issues – and the themes of upcoming issues were debated and fixed.
For this 211th issue, a large selection of the testimonies published in the first decades 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 documented aspects of the persecution or extermination of the Jews, far beyond France. Sometimes they came in support of historical records; or they accompanied major commemorative events. Excerpts from books published abroad also appear in the journal: thus the reader comes across Jan Karski, Primo Levi or Leib Rochman. But very diverse in their style and authors, these personal stories are also often one of the only traces that we keep of these witnesses, to whom this number pays tribute by giving to read their writings.
WRITING
Managing editor: Audrey Kichelewski (University of Strasbourg / Institut Universitaire de France) and
Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester/ Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po)
Editorial committee: 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 (Paris 8 Lecturer),
Judith Lindenberg (MAHJ),
Judith Lyon-Caen (EHESS),
Claire Mouradian (EHESS, CRH),
Simon Perego (Associate researcher at the Science Po Center for History),
Renée Poznanski (Ben-Gurion University)
Fabien Theophilakis (Lecturer Paris 1),
Claire Zalc (CNRS, IHMC)
Director of the Review: Jacques Fredj
Writing, layout, manufacturing 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).
THE REVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
The Review of the History of the Shoah is published by the Memorial of the Shoah. It is the oldest scientific journal dealing with the Shoah to have remained in activity without interruption. 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 appear in French, it wants to participate in the most current research on the Shoah, both in the field of history and other social sciences, anthropology, sociology, literary studies or memory. Film studies, gender studies, the history of ideas are all disciplines that come within his sphere of interest. The geographical area it covers is Europe as a whole, including countries that remained neutral during the Second World War, but also colonial empires and beyond (United States, Latin America, etc.).
The RHS has published and intends to publish articles on the history of genocides other 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 Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah receives articles for publication. Articles are evaluated doubly and anonymously. It is possible to send contributions in a foreign language, which will be evaluated and, once accepted, translated.
