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- Title
Competing for the Youth: Jewish Scout Identity, Religion, and Gender during the Holocaust in France.
- Authors
Balint, Barnabas
- Abstract
This article examines Jewish youth identity, gender, and ideology during the Holocaust in France in order to understand how young people responded to persecution. The author's attempts to understand the youth perspective reveals that these adolescents' experiences were distinct and varied, and each traversed complex and multifaceted paths through the war. Always in perpetual negotiation with other elements of their identities—such as their ideology, religion, and gender—for many, youth movements greatly impacted how they developed and matured into adulthood. Coming of age during the Holocaust meant not only enduring persecution, but also traditional discourses on the place of young people in society. Charting the trajectories of individual young people and Jewish youth groups within the context of the war, the Holocaust, and French Jewish history reveals their radicalized and accelerated wartime development. In researching this phenomenon, it becomes possible to decenter entrenched narratives of persecution and resistance and enhance our understanding of wartime gender roles, the impact of Judaism, and the various ideologies that informed these youths' lives.
- Subjects
FRANCE; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945; YOUNG adults; GENDER; JEWISH history; FRENCH history; PERSECUTION; YOUTH movements; JEWISH identity
- Publication
Holocaust & Genocide Studies, 2023, Vol 37, Issue 3, p390
- ISSN
8756-6583
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/hgs/dcad052