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Françoise S. Ouzan received a PhD in History from the Sorbonne (Paris I) and holds an Agrégation (English and American Literature). A former Associate Professor at the University of Reims, she is currently a Senior Researcher at the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center of Tel Aviv University and Associate Researcher at the French Research Center in Jerusalem (CRFJ/CNRS). She regularly lectures at the International School for Holocaust Studies of Yad Vashem. Her major publications on displaced persons, antisemitism, and American Jewry include: Ces Juifs dont l'Amérique ne voulait pas (Complexe 1995); Histoire des Américains juifs (André Versaille 2008); De la mémoire de la Shoah dans le monde juif (edited with Dan Michman, CNRS éditions 2008); and a historical novel, Demain, nous partons (Bibliophane 2007). She participated in the Dictionnaire de la Shoah (Larousse 2009) and in the documentary La vie après la Shoah (The Shoah's Aftermath) by F. Gillery 2009. More recently she co-edited Holocaust Survivors, Resettlement, Memories, Identities,( New York: Berghahn Books, 2012) and Postwar Jewish Displacement and Rebirth, 1945-1967 ( Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014).
List of Publications
BOOKS
1. Françoise S. Ouzan, Ces Juifs dont l'Amérique ne voulait pas, (The Jews America did not want) 1945-1950, Bruxelles, éditions Complexe, 1995, number 82 (186 p.).
Book Review (French)
http://www.lexpress.fr/informations/l-amerique-briseuse-de-reve_613363.html
2. Françoise S. Ouzan, Histoire des Américains juifs, de la marge à l'influence, (A History of American Jews, from Marginality to Influence), Bruxelles, André Versaille éditeur, April 2008 (262 p.)
http://jcpa.org/article/michelle-mazel-on-histoire-des-americains-juifs-a-history-of-american-jewry-by-francoise-s-ouzan/
Book Review (in French)
http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Heureux-comme-un-Juif-en-Amerique.html
IN EDITING
1. Françoise S. Ouzan, Dan Michman, De La mémoire de la Shoah dans le monde Juif, Paris, CNRS éditions, November 2008 (498 pp). http://www.cnrseditions.fr/Histoire-contemporaine/6067-memoire-Shoah-dans-monde-juif-Francoise-Ouzan-9782271067630.html
3. Françoise. S. Ouzan, Margalith Getraida, Vivre en Israël après la Shoah (Living in Israel after the Shoah), Paris, témoignages de survivants venus de France, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2008 (158 p.) (A collection of in depth interviews of Holocaust survivors from France).
http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=27153
4. Françoise S. Ouzan, Dalia Ofer, Judy Tydor Baumel- Schwartz (eds), Holocaust Survivors: Resettlement, Memories, New York, Berghahn Books, 2012 (345p.). http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=OferHolocaust
Book Review
https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/
5. Françoise S. Ouzan, Manfred Gerstenfeld (eds), Postwar Jewish Displacement and Rebirth, 1945-1967, (Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2014).
ARTICLES in Journals
1. Françoise S. Ouzan, L'admission aux Etats-Unis des personnes déplacées : geste humanitaire ou arme idéologique? in Revue Française d'Etudes Nord américaine, la politique étrangère aux Etats-Unis, Nancy, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, n° 61, 1994, (pp. 235-245). (The admission of Displaced Persons in America: a humanitarian move or an ideological weapon?).
2. Françoise S. Ouzan, L'implantation planifiée des personnes déplacées aux Etats-Unis, 1945-1952, in Les Cahiers du CECILE, Centre d'Etudes des Civilisations Liées aux Langues Etrangères, Reims, Presses Universitaires de Reims, 1995, n°5. (The planned resettlement of Displaced Persons in America, 1945-1952, pp. 57-65)
3. Françoise S. Ouzan, Le commentaire de documents historiques : méthodologie, in Les Cahiers du CECILE, Presses Universitaires de Reims, 1996, n°6, (pp. 5-19)
4. Françoise S. Ouzan, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum de Washington: une spécificité américaine ? (The USHMM: How American is it?) in Les Nouveaux Cahiers, Summer 1997, Mémoires d'Amérique, (pp. 55-61).
5. Françoise S. Ouzan, La reconstruction des identités juives dans les camps de personnes déplacées d'Allemagne (1945-1957), in Bulletin du Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem, (CRFJ), n°14, 2004, pp. 35-49.
5a. Article translated in English (pp. 98-111). Françoise Ouzan, Rebuilding Jewish Identities in Displaced Persons Camps in Germany, (1945-1957), in Bulletin du Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem, (CRFJ), n°14, 2004, pp. 98-111. http://bcrfj.revues.org/269?&id=269
6. Françoise S. Ouzan, Foehrenwald, dernier camp de personnes déplacées, îlot de vie juive sur le sol allemand ou « salle d'attente de l'immigration », Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah, numéro 182, 2005, (pp. 211-232).
7. Françoise S. Ouzan, Antisemitism in the US at the End of the War and in its Aftermath, Antisemitism Worldwide, 2003/2004, Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary AntiSemitism and Racism, Tel-Aviv University, 2005., (pp. 51-74). (on line on Academia.edu)
8. Françoise S. Ouzan, The Eichmann trial and American Jewry, Jewish Political Studies Review; Jerusalem, Baltimore, Spring 5767/ 2007, (pp. 25-38). http://jcpa.org/article/the-eichmann-trial-and-american-jewry-a-reassessment/
9. Françoise S. Ouzan, De l'identité juive contemporaine aux Etats-Unis, Bulletin du Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem (CRFJ/CNRS), numéro 18, 2007, (pp. 161-171), on line. http://bcrfj.revues.org/235?&id=235
10. Françoise Ouzan, De la mémoire de la Shoah et du vivre ensemble, in Hors série des Etudes du CRIF, 70 ans, 1944-2014.
http://www.crif.org/fr/tribune/de-la-m%C3%A9moire-de-la-shoah-et-du-%C2%AB-vivre-ensemble-%C2%BB/50024
11. Françoise S. Ouzan, L'"américanisation" de la mémoire de la Shoah à travers le musée mémorial de Washington, In Présence de la Shoah et d'Israël dans la pensée contemporaine, edited by M. G. Wolkowicz, In Press publisher, Schibboleth, 2014, p. 211-219.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1. Françoise S. Ouzan, Un enjeu pour les Etats-Unis: les réfugiés d'après-guerre, 1945-1953, (Post-war Refugees: a Political Weapon for the United States ), in L'anticommunisme et la "Chasse aux sorcières" aux Etats-Unis, 1946-1954, Paris, Ellipses, 1995 ( pp. 81-90).
2. Françoise S. Ouzan, Un exemple d'engagement : l'American Memorial Hospital de Reims, 1919-1947 (A case in point : the American Memorial Hospital in Reims), in Les Américains et la France, 1917-1947, engagements et représentations, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, 1999, (pp. 41-53).
3. Françoise S. Ouzan, Une nouvelle superpuissance face à un dilemme : Truman et la création de l'Etat d'Israël (A Dilemma for a New Superpower : Truman and the Creation of the State of Israel, 1945-1948) in La montée en puissance des Etats-Unis, Paris, l'Harmattan, 2004, (pp. 115-130).
4. Françoise S. Ouzan, Introduction : Un état des lieux mémoriels, in De La mémoire de la Shoah dans le monde Juif, (The Memory of the Shoah in the Jewish World) Paris, CNRS éditions, November 2008 (pp. 9-17)
5. Françoise S. Ouzan, La mémoire de la Shoah dans le vécu des Juifs aux Etats-Unis (1945-1961), in De La mémoire de la Shoah dans le monde Juif, Paris, CNRS éditions, November 2008 (pp.283-312).
6. Françoise S. Ouzan, Un pan d'histoire méconnu : les survivants de la Shoah dans les régions rurales des Etats-Unis, Terres promises. Mélanges offerts à André Kaspi, Préface de René Rémond, articles réunis par Hélène Harter, Pierre Melandri et Catherine Nicault, Publications de la Sorbonne, Dec. 2008, pp. 539-547.
7. Françoise S. Ouzan, New Roots for the Uprooted, Holocaust Survivors as Farmers in America, in Holocaust Survivors in their countries of Resettlement: Space, Memories and Identities, New York, Berghahn Books, edited by Dalia Ofer, Francoise S. Ouzan, Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, 2012, (p. 233-257).
8. Françoise S. Ouzan, American Jewish Chaplains and European Jewry (1945-1953), in F. Ouzan and M. Gerstenfeld, eds., Postwar Jewish Displacement and Rebirth, 1945-1967 ( Leiden and Boston, 2014)
9. Françoise S. Ouzan , "From the Jewish Resistance in France to the Jewish State: Intersecting Roads," in Jewish Soldiers in World War II, ed. by Kiril Feferman, Simha Goldin and Dina Porat (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2016), vol. 17 of Michael: On the History of Jews in the Diaspora.
PARTICIPATION IN DOCUMENTARY FILM
Documentary film on Holocaust Survivors and Life after the Shoah, partially based on the books Vivre en Israël après la Shoah (Living in Israel after the Shoah), Paris, témoignages de survivants venus de France, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2008 and Ces Juifs dont l'Amérique ne voulait pas, (The Jews America did not want) 1945-1950, Bruxelles, éditions Complexe, 1995, number 82 "La vie après la Shoah", a film by Francis Gillery, UGOPROD, 2009, 1H28, Presented officially at the UNESCO, January 27, 2010. http://www.ugoprod.fr/documentaires/la-vie-apres-la-shoah
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1. Françoise S. Ouzan, Demain, nous partons (We're leaving Tomorrow), Paris, Bibliophane-Daniel Radford, 2007 (232 pp.) (Historical fiction on Jewish DP's in the immediate post-war period).
2. Françoise S. Ouzan, "Israel in Orthodox Identity" (commentary) in Israel, the Diaspora and Jewish Identity, Brighton, Portland, Sussex Academic Press, edited by Danny Ben Moshe and Zohar Segev, 2007, (pp. 64-66).
3. Françoise S. Ouzan, Actualité Juive, « Les élections américaines et Israël » (political section), Number 281, July-August 2008, (pp. 12-13).
4. Françoise S. Ouzan, Le Judaïsme américain en question: transformations identitaires et sociales, revue Plurielles 'Number 16, Paris, 2011 (pp. 7-16). http://www.ajhl.org/plurielles/PL16.PDF
ENCYCLOPEDIA ITEMS
Dictionnaire de la Shoah, éditions Larousse, Paris ,2009, (Dictionary on the Holocaust) : articles on « Les Etats-Unis » and « Les Personnes Déplacées » (United States and Displaced Persons).
ARTICLE (IN A SERIES OF THEMATIC STUDIES)
Françoise S. Ouzan, Manifestations et mutations du sentiment anti-juif aux Etats-Unis: entre mythes et représentations, Etudes du CRIF, Number 18, Paris, 2010, 57p. http://www.crif.org/etudesducrif/etudes-du-crif-n%C2%B018-manifestations-et-mutations-du-sentiment-anti-juif-aux-etats-unis/30210
BOOK REVIEWS
Europe's Jewish Problem, Les frontières d'Auschwitz: Les ravages du devoir de mémoire by Shmuel Trigano, Collection Livre de Poche, 2005, 250 pp., Jewish Political Studies Review, Spring 5766/2006, volume 18, numbers 1 &2, pp.195-197, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. http://jcpa.org/article/francoise-ouzan-on-les-frontieres-dauschwitz/
- May 13, 1993: lecture given at the University of Paris VII, (Society of North American Studies), "The immigration of Displaced Persons" in America (1945-1952).
- 1993-1995: series of lectures given to teachers in secondary schools: "How to teach English and American History within an English course", MAFPEN, Regional Centre for Pedagogy and documentation, Reims.
- April 5, 1995: lecture at the University of Reims, Department of History, "Sources and Methods in the Study of forced migrations".
- May 23 1997, lecture in the International Conference held in Reims on "The American Involvement in France" (1917-1947), "A case in Point : The American Memorial Hospital in Reims ( 1919-1947)"
- March 13, 1999, lecture at the University of Reims: "Spielberg's Schindler's List: Appearance and Reality".
- December 10, 1999: lecture given for the seminar on the Shoah, University of Paris I, Sorbonne, under the direction of André Kaspi : " The Promised Land of Displaced Persons".
- December 26, 2002: lecture given for the seminar in the International Research Institute of Yad Vashem : "The Political Use of the Shoah in the United States"
- June 2, 2003, lecture in the seminars on research at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "American Antisemitism in the Forties : a Reassessment".
- June 13, 2003: lecture in the international conference about "The rise of the United States as a superpower", at the Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris III, " A Dilemma for a New Superpower : Truman and the Creation of the State of Israel", OPEA (Observatoire de la Politique Etrangère américaine)
- December 14, 2005: lecture in The Centre de Recherche Francais de Jérusalem (CRFJ, CNRS): the Impact of the Eichmann Trial on the Memory of the Shoah in America and Israel.
- March 24, 2006 : invitation to lecture in the Institute of Political Sciences of Paris, (Sciences PO, Institut des Sciences Politiques de Paris), Les « personnes déplacées » juives dans les camps de réfugiés d'Allemagne, un enjeu international de l'Après-guerre, Centre d'histoire, « Sorties de guerre des deux conflits mondiaux », in cooperation with Yale University.
- January 29, 2006: invitation to lecture in a seminar for French speaking teachers at the Yad Vashem International School : Les personnes déplacées juives dans l'après-guerre.
- January 29-30, 2007: Organization (with Prof. Dalia Ofer) of the two-day international workshop entitled "Holocaust Survivors in their Countries of Resettlement: Space, Memories and Identities" at the Hebrew University, in cooperation with the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center and CRFJ/CNRS;
- January 29 2007: Lecture: "Replanting Survivors' Lives on American Soil: the Blossoming of New identities".
- August, 27, 2007: invitation to lecture in a seminar for teachers from Belgium at the Yad Vashem International School : Displaced Persons after Word War II.
- January 16, 2008: Chair person in the international conference : Jewish Art in Context :
"The Role and Meaning of Artifacts and Visual images", 14-16 January, organized by the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University .
- January 21, 2009, « Les Américains juifs, de la marge à l'influence », (Jewish Americans, from Marginality to Influence) Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem (CRFJ/CNRS).
Invitation to lecture abroad:
- March 4, 2009 : "The memory of the Shoah in the Jewish World", Faculté de Théologie et des Sciences de la Religion, séminaire " Penser Après la Shoah", Lausanne, Switzerland.
Other conferences
- July 8, 2008 « Les Juifs aux Etats-Unis de 1654 à nos jours : quelle influence culturelle ? », French Cultural Institute Romain Gary, Jerusalem
-October 30 2009, « Les personnes déplacées juives et la création de l'Etat d'Israël » (Jewish Displaced Persons and the Creation of the State of Israel), invited by Yad Layeled and Lohamei Haghetatot (Seminar for French Speakers); Ecce Homo.
- May 7, 2013, Tel Aviv University, Evening Symposium : Holocaust Survivors in Rural America. Lecture: "New Roots for the Uprooted, Holocaust Survivors in Rural America and Jewish Identities".
International Conference: Displacement, Migration and Social Integration: A Comparative Approach to Jewish Migrants and Refugees in the Postwar Period (1945-1967)
15-16 May 2011, The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University.
University of Tel Aviv (October 29-31, 2013), "La présence de la Shoah et d'Israël dans la pensée contemporaine: perspectives théoriques et analytiques"
Françoise S. Ouzan, L'"américanisation" de la mémoire de la Shoah à travers le musée mémorial de Washington.
International Conference:
5-6 January 2014, The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University
History, Language and Identities in Post-Holocaust Literary Writings: Romain Gary, Primo Levi and Heinrich Boll
Chair, opening session.
Françoise S. Ouzan, "Displacement and Jewish Displaced Persons in La Tregua" ( Primo Levi)
December 8-10, 2014
International conference:"Jewish Soldiers in World War II".
Chair of the session on the Middle East Arena.
January 25-27 2015; participation in the Fifth International Conference on Holocaust Research, a conference organized by the Federal Agency for Civic Education in cooperation with the European University of Flensburg and Humboldt University of Berlin.
January 26; Keynote lecture: "From the DP camps to America: the Jewish Survivors' Experience "
(Blog of the Conference: www.bpb.de/konferenz-holocaustforschung).
Participation in the international conference on Jerusalem, organized by Schibboleth-Actualité de Freud, "If it was Jerusalem", 18-19-20 April, 2016, The Menachem Begin Heritage Center , Jerusalem.
Lecture : "Zev Birger and Jerusalem" (forthcoming publication)
Forthcoming :
International Conference on Jews in French Algeria during World War II ( in cooperation with the Ben Zvi Center, Jerusalem), December 2018.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
1990: Research grant, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri
2005: Post-Doctoral grant, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah
2011: Research grant, Claims Conference
2014-15: Fellowship, Memorial Conference for Jewish Culture