Antisemitism and Urban Development in France in the Second World War : The Case of Paris’s Ilot 16 Sarah Gensburger, Isabelle Backouche To cite this version: Sarah Gensburger, Isabelle Backouche. Antisemitism and Urban Development in France in the Second World War : The Case of Paris’s Ilot 16. Contemporary European History, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014, 3 (23), pp.381-403. halshs-01067612 HAL Id: halshs-01067612 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01067612 Submitted on 23 Sep 2014 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Anti-Semitism and Urban Development in World War II France: The case of Paris’s Ilot 16 Isabelle Backouche, EHESS;
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[email protected] 23 Bd Voltaire 75011 Paris 1 « Antisemitism and Urban Development in France in the Second World War : The Case of Ilot 16 in Paris », with I. Backouche, Contemporary European History, 23 (3), 2014, p. 381- 403. Anti-Semitism and Urban Development in World War II France: The case of Paris’s Ilot 16 A 1921 report from the Seine Prefecture, presented to the municipal council,1 identified seventeen insalubrious îlots2 in Paris with above-average mortality rates from tuberculosis.