Henry Rousso

Henry Rousso is a French historian, born in 1954 with the Cairo, specialist in the XXe century and in particular in the Second world war.

Biography

In 1974, it integrates the National university of Saint-Cloud. It is aggregate three years later. It enters in 1981 to the Institut of history of time present (IHTP) and takes part in its creation. It directs the IHTP of 1994 to 2005 and passed the essence of its career there, while giving courses to the university of Harvard, of 1986 to 1987, with the Institut of political studies of Paris, of 1988 to 1990, at the university of New York, in 1992, then with the National university of Cachan, 1996 to 2001. Since June 2000, it is entitled to direct research (CNRS, Institut of time present), the highest rank of French higher education, Collège de France except. The following year, he becomes professor of masterly row to the Université of Paris X - Nanterre.

Henry Rousso is member of the editorial boards of Twentieth Century. Review of history , Right and company , the Books of the Judaism , Passato E Presents (re-examined Italian) and of Hagar. International Social Science Review (re-examined Israeli). It also belongs to the scientific advice of the French Research center of Jerusalem, the French research Center in social sciences of Prague (CEFRES), of the Institute of recent history of Bucharest, of the Research center of Historial de Péronne, the Memorial of Shoah of Paris, as well as Center of history of the Resistance and deportation of Lyon. In 2005, it widens its research with the epistemology of the history. He is also chronicler with the Express train .

The works which made its notoriety are especially a castle in Germany. Sigmaringen, 1944-1945 , published for the first time in 1980, and the Syndrome of Vichy , seven years later. It has advanced the concept of “Résistancialisme” to qualify the vision of the Resistance maintained by the gaullists and the Communists.

In connection with the lawsuit of Maurice Papon, concerning the period of Vichy for which he refused to appear, Henry Rousso underlined the risk of a confusion between the role of the historian and that of the judge.

Works

a Castle in Germany. Sigmaringen, 1944-1945 , Paris, Ramsay, 1980,442 p.; rééd. Pétain and end of Collaboration, Sigmaringen, 1944-1945 , Brussels, Complex, 1984,442 p.
the Syndrome of Vichy 1944-198… , Paris, the Threshold, 1987,383 p.; 2nd ED. review and update, the Syndrome of Vichy of 1944 to our days, Paris, the Threshold, 1990,420 p. - Translation: The Vichy Syndrome. History year Memory in France since 1944 , transl. Arthur Goldhammer, foreword of Stanley Hoffmann, Cambridge, Harvard University Near, 1991 and 1994,392 p.
Collaboration. Names, topics, the places, Paris, MY, 1987,203 p.
black Years. To live under the Occupation , Paris, Gallimard, 1992,194 p.
the Second world war. Guide sources preserved in France, 1939-1945 , with Brigitte Blanc and Chantal de Tourtier-Bonazzi, Paris, Public records, 1994,1217 p.
Vichy, a past which does not pass , with Eric Conan, Paris, Fayard, 1994,327 p. (coll “For a history of the XXe century”). New increased edition, Paris, Gallimard, 1996,513 p. (coll “Folio/History”). - Translation and new ED. remelted: Vichy, Year Ever-Present Past , translation Nathan Bracher, foreword of Robert Paxton, Hanover/London, University Close off New England, 1998,291 p.
Obsession of the past. Discussion with Small , Paris, Textual Philippe, 1998,143 p. Traduction: The Haunting Past, transl. Ralph Schoolcraft , foreword of Ora Avni, Philadelphia, PEN Near, 2002.
(to dir.), Stalinism and Nazism. Compared history and memories , Paris/Brussels, IHTP-CNRS/Complexe, coll “History of time present”, 1999,387 p.
Vichy. The event, memory, the history , Paris, Gallimard, coll “Folio/history”, 2001,750 p.
the File Lyon III , Paris, Beech, 2004,260 p.

See too

Commission on racism and the negationnism at the university Jean-Mill Lyon III

External bonds

Lyon-III too tolerant with the extreme line - the commission chaired by Henry Rousso on racism and the negationnism the Lyons university returns today his report/ratio '', Nouvel Observateur , October 6th, 2004.

Commission on racism and the negationnism at the university Jean-Mill Lyon III Report/ratio with Mister the Minister for State education by Henry Rousso September 2004 (pdf) 263 pages

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