Polish Jews in Paris: the ethnography of memory

Recounts the role of the Landsmanshaftn, the organizational core of the Polish Jewish Community in Paris, providing a bridge linking memory to destiny of the immigrant's lives and the external constraints they faced, their stories of childhood dislocation, emigration, survival of the Nazi aggression and postwar reconstruction in France, reponse to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the ways in which the immigrants' stories affect their children's situation.