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Book Review

Comparative/World

Maud S. Mandel. In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth-Century France. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 317. $23.95.

Although genocide has received a great deal of scholarly attention in recent years, relatively little work has focused on the experience of victim groups in the aftermath of an attempted genocide. Maud S. Mandel's book is an important exception to this rule. While much is now known about the mechanics and processes of genocide and the governments that perpetrate them, much less is known about the ways in which traumatized populations struggle to rebuild their lives, families, and communities in the wake of a genocidal assault. Important questions remain about the ways in which genocide affects both communal and individual identity, the long-term effect of trauma, and the particular issues of acculturation confronted by exile groups coping with a new society. These are precisely the issues addressed by Mandel in her analysis of the Armenian and Jewish populations after their respective genocides. France, as home to the only substantial community of both Jews and Armenians in Western Europe, provides Mandel with an ideal setting for the kind of comparative analysis and discussion she undertakes with this book.

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