Laura Hobson Faure

Laura Hobson Faure is a professor at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University-Paris 1, where she holds the chair of Modern Jewish history and is a member of the Center for Social History (UMR 8058). She is the author of A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: the American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France (Indiana University Press, 2022) and co-editor of L’Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants et les populations juives au XXème siècle. Prévenir et Guérir dans un siècle de violences and Les enfants « sans famille » dans les conflits du 20ème siècle (Editions CNRS forthcoming).

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Laura Hobson Faure." (Viewed on December 3, 2024) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/faure-laura>.