Publication of the first issue of the RHS from the new editorial board led by Audrey Kichelewski and Jean-Marc Dreyfus

Review of the history of the Shoah, no. 211
«Recounting the Shoah: 40 years of writing in Le Monde Juif»

The 211th issue of the Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah, the first from the new editorial board headed by Audrey Kichelewski
and Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Recounting the Holocaust: 40 years of personal writings in Le Monde Juif published 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 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 new editors of the journal.

The committee members discussed 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 future issues were debated and agreed upon.

For this 211th issue, a large 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 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: for example, readers come across Jan Karski, Primo Levi or Leib Rochman. But very diverse in style and authors, these personal stories are also often one of the only traces we keep of these witnesses, to whom this issue pays tribute by giving their writings to read.

WRITING

Managing editor: Audrey Kichelewski (University of Strasbourg / Institut Universitaire de France) and
Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester / Sciences Po History Centre)

Editorial Board: Claire Andrieu (Sciences Po),
Deborah Barton (Université de Montréal),
Hélène Dumas (CNRS, IHTP),
Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa),
Laura Hobson Faure (Professor Paris 1),
Laurent Joly (CNRS),
Ophir Levy (Paris 8 Senior Lecturer),
Judith Lindenberg (MAHJ),
Judith Lyon-Caen (EHESS),
Claire Mouradian (EHESS, CRH),
Simon Perego (Associate Researcher at the Science Po History Center),
Renée Poznanski (Ben-Gurion University)
Fabien Theophilakis (Paris 1 Lecturer),
Claire Zalc (CNRS, IHMC)
Director of the Journal: Jacques Fredj
Drafting, 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 HISTORY JOURNAL OF THE SHOAH

The Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah is published by the Mémorial de la 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 journal deals with the genocide of the European Jews 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 and the history of ideas are all disciplines that fall 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 Holocaust 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. The articles are evaluated doubly and anonymously. It is possible to send contributions in a foreign language, which will be evaluated and, once accepted, translated.