My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community

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Notes [ 243 ] 1. The Old Neighborhood 1. There were Jews at Ravensbrück. See Rochelle G. Saidel, The JewishWomen of Ravensbr ück Concentration Camp. 2. See René Rémond, Le “fichier juif.” 3. See Jean-Marc Léry, “Evolution du quartier du Marais,” 40. 4. In the 1560s according to Clément Gurvil, “Le Marais au XVIème siècle,” or the seventeenth century according to Léry, “Evolution du quartier du Marais,” 70. 5. See Boris Bove, “L’urbanisation et le peuplement du quartier Saint-Gervais au Moyen Age,” 60. 6. Ibid., 70–71, and Léry, “Evolution du quartier du Marais.” 7. Gurvil, “Le Marais au XVIème siècle,” 134. 8. Jean-Pierre Babelon, “Essor et décadence du Marais,” 103. 9. See Robert Descimon, “Le Marais du XVIIème siècle,” Azéma, Vivre et survivre dans le Marais, and Patrick Maunand, ed., Le Marais des écrivains. 10. I thank Marie Ymonet for this wonderful quotation. When no English translation appears in the bibliography, the translation is mine. 11. Tableau de Paris, quoted by Babelon, Le Marais, 121. 12. See Babelon, Le Marais, 116. 13. See Louis Bergeron, “Le quartier Saint-Gervais à l’aube du XIXème siècle.” 14. Quoted in Maunand, Le Marais des écrivains, 124. 15. For this and much of what follows, see Roger Berg, Histoire des juifs à Paris. 16. See Esther Benbassa, Histoire des juifs de France, 54–60. 17. Berg, Histoire des juifs à Paris, 49. 18. Ibid. 19. Ibid., 189. 20. For these figures and a more detailed description of the different waves of immigration , see Michel Roblin, Les juifs de Paris, 64–74. 21. See Benbassa, Histoire des juifs de France, 162–63. 22. See Paula E. Hyman, The Jews of Modern France, 117. 23. Ibid., 119. 24. On this particular wave of immigration, see Vicki Caron, Uneasy Asylum. 25. See Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaléard, “Les étrangers,” 285 ; Hyman,The Jews of Modern France, 121. 26. Berg, Histoire des juifs à Paris, 191. 27. For this and much of what follows, see Nancy L. Green, “The Contradictions of Acculturation .” 28. See Marc Walter’s documentary, Les rosiers du Marais. 29. See Jean-Claude Kuperminc, “La presse juive en France” and Green, “The Contradictions of Acculturation.” 30. See Green, The Pletzl of Paris, which focuses on the pre-World War I period but whose description still applies to the interwar period. See also Hyman, The Jews of Modern France, and her From Dreyfus toVichy. 31. Hyman, The Jews of Modern France, 122. 32. Jean-Claude Kuperminc, “Les mouvements de jeunesse juive en France.” 33. Hyman,The Jews of Modern France, 120. 34. Nicole Priollaud, Victor Zigelman, and Laurent Goldberg, eds., Images de la mémoire juive de Paris, 139. 35. See Aline Denain, “Le Pletzl,” Bernadette Costa, “Je me souviens du Marais,” and Jeanne Brody, Rue des Rosiers, among others. 36. See Brody, Rue des Rosiers, 37–38, Annie Kriegel’s autobiography, Ce que j’ai cru comprendre , and Roger Ascot’s novel, Les enfants du square desVosges. 37. As told to Jeanne Brody by an old resident of the Marais, 17. 38. See Brody, Rue des Rosiers, 115, and Colette Bismuth-Jarrassé and Dominique Jarrassé, “Fragments d’un quartier juif,” 228. 39. Quoted by Jean Laloum, “Entre aryanisation et déportations,” 367 and 372–73, respectively . 40. The theft of Jewish-owned buildings in the îlot 16 is contentious to this day and constitutes a relatively large portion of the recent exhibit and its companion book. See in particular Laloum, as well as Yankel Fijalkow, “De l’îlot no 2 à l’îlot no 16,” and Françoise Janin, “Spoliations d’habitants de ‘l’îlot 16.’ ” 41. Anne Grynberg, “Le retour et la reconstruction.” 42. Mark Kurlansky, A Chosen Few, 39. 43. Grynberg, “Le retour et la reconstruction.” 468, and Kurlansky, A Chosen Few. 44. The books of Fleischman’s trilogy, Rendez-vous au métro Saint-Paul, Nouveaux rendezvous au métro Saint-Paul, and Derniers rendez-vous au métro Saint-Paul, are collections of short stories in the style of Sholem Aleichem, in which the dead have a propensity to come back and advise the living. I like to think of these volumes as stories of communities as well as communities of stories. 45. See Hyman, The Jews of Modern France, 194, and Benbassa, Histoire des juifs de France, 279–80. Berg has slightly different figures. 46. See the work of Michel Abitbol, particularly “La cinquième...