{"title":"“I am now their father too”: the multi-layered meanings of family letters from the Jewish Maquis in France during the second world war","authors":"Barnabas Balint","doi":"10.1080/1462169X.2023.2192638","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article highlights a specific type of ego-document, where the personal and institutional are deeply intertwined and can only be understood together. It analyses a collection of letters sent between the head of the Jewish Scouts in France, Robert Gamzon, and his wife and children in hiding during the Second World War. These letters held a dual purpose: to emotionally connect a family and to pass secret encoded details about maquis activity. Decoding the letters to reveal their true meaning, this article offers a vivid window into the daily life of the resistance and the ways that Jews experienced it.","PeriodicalId":35214,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Culture and History","volume":"24 1","pages":"193 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Jewish Culture and History","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2023.2192638","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This article highlights a specific type of ego-document, where the personal and institutional are deeply intertwined and can only be understood together. It analyses a collection of letters sent between the head of the Jewish Scouts in France, Robert Gamzon, and his wife and children in hiding during the Second World War. These letters held a dual purpose: to emotionally connect a family and to pass secret encoded details about maquis activity. Decoding the letters to reveal their true meaning, this article offers a vivid window into the daily life of the resistance and the ways that Jews experienced it.
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