https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/In-Praise-of-the-Intermediary https://booksandideas.net/In-Praise-of-the-Intermediary 2024-09-12T07:00:00Z text/html en Piroska Nagy History Middle Ages literature war translation postwar <p>“Fixers”, or dragomans, are vital intermediaries and interpreters for both journalists and soldiers in hostile terrain, and play a central role in a network of relationships and transfers. In the Middle Ages they embodied the need for otherness, and continue to do so today.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Clemenceau-the-American https://booksandideas.net/Clemenceau-the-American 2023-02-07T07:30:00Z text/html en Nicolas Barreyre History United States of America postwar Cairn.info <p>Before becoming one of the Third Republic's leading figures, Georges Clemenceau was a newspaper correspondent in New York, immediately after the Civil War. The publication of his articles makes it possible to trace the trajectory of French republicanism, as well as its grey areas and unquestioned assumptions.</p> https://booksandideas.net/They-Did-Witness https://booksandideas.net/They-Did-Witness 2019-03-28T06:30:00Z text/html en Nick Underwood History Shoah world war testimony yiddish Books and ideas originals postwar <p>When did Holocaust survivors start speaking about their experiences? Were their voices heard? A prevailing myth states that witnesses remained silent during the postwar years. However, Judith Lindenberg's edited volume argues that the “urgency to say and make known was present from the beginning of the genocide”.</p>