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Ninette's War: A Jewish Story of Survival in 1940s France de John Jay

Ninette's War: A Jewish Story of Survival in 1940s France

Autor John Jay
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 ian 2026

Cum poate o tânără aflată în cercul intim al lui Albert Einstein și al celebrei Colette să devină, peste noapte, o fugară fără nume? Găsim în Ninette's War un paradox sfâșietor: cel al unei moștenitoare răsfățate dintr-o familie de elită franceză care, pentru a supraviețui, trebuie să accepte o cădere socială brutală și să îmbrățișeze anonimatul. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care John Jay reconstruiește această prăbușire, folosind jurnalele intime ale lui Ninette Dreyfus pentru a documenta nu doar teama, ci și trădarea profundă simțită de o cetățeană franceză în fața regimului colaboraționist de la Vichy.

Putem afirma că forța acestei lucrări rezidă în echilibrul dintre rigoarea cercetării și sensibilitatea unei voci adolescentine. Stilul este unul evocator, îmbogățit de prezența celor 16 pagini de fotografii inedite care ancorează narațiunea în realitate. Pe același raft cu "A Terrible and Terribly Interesting Epoch" de Alexandra Garbarini, dar cu un accent pe fragilitatea identității personale și pe pierderea statutului social, cartea ne oferă o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care unitatea națională se dezintegrează sub presiunea ocupației.

Deși John Jay este cunoscut pentru preocupările sale legate de fundamentele democrației și structurile constituționale în lucrări precum The Federalist Papers, în acest volum el își schimbă lentila de la macro-istorie la micro-istorie. Dacă în textele sale anterioare analiza apărarea idealurilor politice, aici explorează consecințele eșecului acestor idealuri asupra individului. Rezultatul este un portret intim al rezilienței, unde supraviețuirea nu este doar un act fizic, ci și unul de conservare a memoriei într-o lume care dorește să te șteargă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781805220671
ISBN-10: 1805220675
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 16 pp b/w insert
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 50 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o perspectivă umană, dincolo de cifrele istoriei. Ninette's War nu este doar o cronică a supraviețuirii, ci o analiză a complicității sociale. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a Franței din anii '40, văzută prin ochii unei tinere care a pierdut totul, mai puțin dorința de a-și spune povestea. Este o lectură esențială pentru pasionații de memorii care valorizează autenticitatea documentelor de epocă.

Despre autor

John Jay este un autor și cercetător dedicat istoriei politice și sociale. Deși numele său este strâns legat de analiza documentelor fundamentale americane, precum The Federalist Papers, prin lucrarea de față el își demonstrează versatilitatea ca biograf și istoric al experienței umane. Colaborarea sa strânsă cu Ninette Dreyfus înainte de dispariția acesteia a permis recuperarea unei voci importante a rezistenței și supraviețuirii evreiești din Franța ocupată. Jay reușește să îmbine expertiza sa în structuri politice cu o naratologie biografică plină de compasiune.

Notă biografică

John Jay is a former managing editor for business news at The Sunday Times. He is the author of Facing Fearful Odds: My Father's Story of Captivity, Escape and Resistance 1940-1945; Ninette's War is his third book. He lives in London with his family.

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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2025 AND THE TIMES NON-FICTION RECOMMENDED READ 'Chillingly relevant' DAILY MAIL'An intimate portrait of of the Holocaust in France' NEW YORKER'Meticulously researched with an inimitable richness, depth and levity' NEW STATESMANNinette Dreyfus was a cosseted scion of one of France's most prominent Jewish families - a cousin to Albert Einstein and family friend to Colette. But when the Second World War broke out and the Germans occupied Paris, the fall was dramatic. Realising that her fate would be transformed, the teenager soon found herself fleeing the capital for the South, only to then fall prey to the Vichy regime. In fear for her life at the hands of the Nazis and their French collaborators, she became somebody else.Woven together from Ninette's own diaries and interviews with author John Jay before she died, NINETTE'S WAR traces the frailty of national and personal unity through the eyes of a young woman, in compelling and unforgettable detail.

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A coming-of-age story that unravels France's dark years of Nazi occupation with the paradox of who resisted, who betrayed and who collaborated. Compelling testimony to what it means to be forced to flee your home and yet emerge with optimism and plenty of life still to be lived
Chronicling the harrowing story of her family's wartime experience and their dizzying fall from extreme wealth and privilege to homelessness, fear and hunger, Jay skilfully weaves extracts from Ninette's diary into a wider account of what happened to French Jews. In between typical teenage musings on clothes, spots and crushes on boys, Ninette's War is not an easy read, but at a time of rising anti-Semitism across the world, it is chillingly relevant
An evocative, assiduously researched account of survival, [and] brutal reckoning with Vichy France's antisemitism and wilful complicity in wartime atrocities. Ninette Dreyfus was from a prominent Jewish family, who had lived in France for generations. Drawn from the diary she kept as well as interviews she gave Jay, family papers and secondary sources among extraordinary cases of escape and bravery... this is her story of fleeing wartime France, embedded in a rich historical background
... meticulously researched, Ninette's War is as much an evocative articulation of the horrors of the Holocaust as it is a reckoning of France's regime under Philippe Pétain. By situating Ninette's remarkable story within the broader historical and social context, Jay is able to offer a unique text with an inimitable richness, depth and, at times, levity
Shortly before her twelfth birthday, the youngest member of a Jewish Parisian banking family, started a diary. That diary, which she kept until 1951, forms the heart of this intimate portrait of the Holocaust in France. Documenting this history is a complex endeavour: unlike elsewhere in Europe, the persecution of Jews in France unfolded in "a gradual, uneven process," with certain communities targeted as others were (temporarily) exempted. Jay, carefully substantiating Dreyfus's account, brings clarity to a usually muddled story, shedding particular light on the French who collaborated to betray their Jewish compatriots
Jay has done an expert job, not just of telling the story of the Dreyfus family, but also the shocking progression of France, from the first European country to emancipate Jews, to a place where French people denounced, betrayed and helped to murder them ... some believed that [their secular-mindedness] would save them, even after the Nazis occupied France. Ninette's War is as much a dissection of the tragic failure of that belief, as it is a family's story of precarious survival
Ninette Dreyfus was from a prominent Jewish family, who had lived in France for generations. This is her story of fleeing the country in wartime
The ripples of stories about the courage and tragic fate of Jews in Nazi occupied Europe still reach us. John Jay's reclaiming of the wartime odyssey in France of Ninette Dreyfus - aka Lady Swaythling in a later life in Britain - is spellbinding. A worthy recalling of the past in the dark times of the present
A worthy addition to the Holocaust lexicon.
Ninette's War examines darkest chapter in French history through a Dreyfus scion's diary entries, family papers and interviews. The story has been painstakingly pieced together by British journalist John Jay, [and] tells the remarkable wartime odyssey of one of France's most prominent Jewish families - and the Vichy regime's knowing complicity in the Nazis' crimes
John Jay's riveting account of the life of Ninette Dreyfus, daughter of one branch of the illustrious Jewish family, skillfully unfurls a fascinating, textured account of France's betrayal of the Jews during the Second World War. Cleaving to the details of her life and that of those around her, Jay provides a gripping and fresh narrative of ever-more astonishing, pacey and ultimately world-changing events. At a time when the Holocaust and the taboo against anti-Semitism moves further away in time, Ninette's War provides urgent context and details we must not forget, alongside a compassionate, elegant tribute to one brave woman's life
Terrifying ... France's années noires seem to remain a time of unceasing fascination to memoirists and historians, but soon there will be no one like Ninette left to tell their own individual stories. Ninette was a heedless, contented Parisian schoolgirl when the Germans marched into France in May 1940. Two years earlier she had been given a diary, and her entries, sometimes in code, form the backbone to Jay's book [with] passages reminiscent of Anne Frank's musings about growing up in her attic in Amsterdam. As Maréchal Pétain set about "purifying" France of its Jewish "plague", her father managed to hold on to enough money to ensure that the family never lacked food, but acts of violent antisemitism exploded around them. And once the Germans occupied the Riviera, with their network of traitors and informers, it finally became clear that even French born Jews were no longer safe.
The 12-year-old Ninette Dreyfus- Jewish by name and descent, yet utterly oblivious of Jewish history, ritual and belief-made the first entry in a diary that she had been given for her birthday. Filled with details of the misery of her first adolescent spots, of crushes on boys, of tennis and swimming parties ... [her wealthy family were], like so many, very slow to recognise the danger they were in. She fled Paris with her family to avoid deportation to Auschwitz, [though] even the terrifying and arduous escape on foot across the Pyrenees to Spain seems to have been viewed by Ninette as an adventure. Mr Jay manages to tell her story with understanding, as well as detailing the wider context
Praise for Facing Fearful Odds
This book is a well-written and moving act of filial homage, where Jay discusses a father always beyond his reach ... leaving behind little more than a few pages of an abandoned memoir and book of poems, Facing Fearful Odds explores the mystery and tries to make sense of his father's tragic post-war life
A pacey and well-researched from an impressive array of sources, Facing Fearful Odds is a moving testament to filial love. Jay has the journalists gift for moving a narrative along in a pacey fashion, and takes us to the heart of darkness where so many men like his father had to dwell, giving him a voice through this work of love
A fascinating account of life in a prisoner-of-war camp ... Facing Fearful Odds is remarkable reconstruction of one man's war and moving tale of endurance and courage
A vivid and engaging description of [Alec Jay's] war experience
Well written with useful maps and interesting photos ... [will be] of interest to anyone looking for a soldier's tale of captivity