France is the only Western European nation home to substantial numbers of survivors of the World War I and World War II genocides. "In the Aftermath of Genocide" offers a unique comparison of the country's Armenian and Jewish survivor communities. By demonstrating how--in spite of significant differences between these two populations--striking similarities emerge in the ways each responded to genocide, Maud S. Mandel illuminates the impact of the nation-state on ethnic and religious minorities in twentieth-century Europe and provides a valuable theoretical framework for considering issues of...

France is the only Western European nation home to substantial numbers of survivors of the World War I and World War II genocides. "In the Aftermath of Genocide" offers a unique comparison of the country s Armenian and Jewish survivor communities. By demonstrating how in spite of significant differences between these two populations striking similarities emerge in the ways each responded to genocide, Maud S. Mandel illuminates the impact of the nation-state on ethnic and religious minorities in twentieth-century Europe and provides a valuable theoretical framework for considering issues of...