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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I have previously published a brief memoir, more centered on Richard's work in law and literature, for the Francophone reader: “Richard Weisberg: démarches et cheminements,” Raisons politiques 27 (August 2007): 51–8.
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.
Notes
1. See Evelyn Barish, The Double Life of Paul de Man (New York: Liveright Publishing, 2014).
2. See Benoît Peeters, Derrida: A Biography (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013).
3. Raymond Aron, De Gaulle, Israël et les Juifs (Paris: Editions Plon, 1968).
4. Jean-Paul Sartre, Réflexions sur la question juive, 1st ed. (Paris: Editions Paul Morihien, 1946).
5. Yves Bonnefoy died on July 1, 2016 at the age of 93. For the non-Francophone reader, see Yves Bonnefoy, The Arrière-Pays, trans. Stephen Romer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011). Stephen and I co-founded the bilingual English-French poetry review Twofold in Paris, which ran from 1980 to 1985.
6. Among his abundant bibliography, I need only cite The Failure of the Word: The Protagonist as Lawyer in Modern Fiction (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984) and Poethics and Other Strategies of Law and Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992).
7. “Madama Butterfly: Law in Opera,” Cycnos (Nice) 19, no. 2 (2002): 125–34 and “Droit et Littérature,” Europe (Paris) (April 2002): 876.
8. See Lizzie Widdicombe, “Retrial,” New Yorker, December 22, 2008.
9. His wartime journal has since been published: Maurice Garçon, Journal (1939–1945), ed. Pascal Fouché and Pascale Froment (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2015).
10. First edition in 1994 (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishing), then in 1996 by New York University Press, and finally translated into French as Vichy, la justice et les juifs (Paris: Éditions des Archives contemporaines, 1998).
11. For those interested in the details, see Michael J. Bazyler, Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in American Courts (New York: New York University Press, 2003) and Michael J. Bazyler and Roger P. Alford, eds., Holocaust Restitution: Perspectives on the Litigation and Its Legacy (New York: New York University Press, 2006).
12. See Order and Memorandum 97 Civ. 7433 (Judge Sterling Johnson), Bodner v. Banque Paribas, 114 F Supp 2d p 117 (EDNY), August 31, 2000.
13. See the Commission's website (in French and English), civs.gouv.fr, for the indemnification procedures and statistics. Its address is 66 rue de Bellechasse, Paris 7e.
14. See Sheri P. Rosenberg et al., eds., Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
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Eric Freedman
Eric Alexander Freedman Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights, Cardozo Law School, New York.