Renée Poznanski (born 26 April 1949 in
Paris
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) is a French-born Israeli
historian
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, specialist in the
Holocaust
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, and the Jewish Resistance in France during the Second World War, who teaches at the
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the ...
, in
Beersheba
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, in Israel.
Works
* Renée Poznanski, Denis Peschanski, ''Drancy en France: de la Cité de la Muette au 'camp des Juifs, Paris, Fayard, 2015.
* Renée Poznanski (ed.), Jacques Biélinky, ''Journal 1940-1942. Un journaliste juif à Paris sous l’Occupation'', Paris, Éditions du CNRS and Cerf, sept. 2011, (First edition 1992).
* Renée Poznanski, ''Propagandes et persécutions, La Résistance et le 'problème juif, Paris, Fayard, 2008.
* Renée Poznanski, ''Les Juifs en France, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale'', New pocket edition (in French), January 2005, Pluriel, Hachette-Littératures, Paris (First edition in 1994 ; English edition in 2001 ; Hebrew edition in 1999).
References
1949 births
Living people
20th-century French Jews
20th-century French historians
Academic staff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
People from Paris
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