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Director of research at the CNRS (CRH-EHESS), has published numerous works on anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in France. His latest: L'État contre les Juifs. Vichy, the Nazis and anti-Semitic persecution (Grasset, 2018).
Latest publication
Vichy, the Jews, and revisionism from 1945 to the present day
- By Laurent Joly
In Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah (2025/1 N° 221)
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Applying for a Job at the Commissariat général aux Questions juives (1941-1944). State Antisemitism and a Recruitment Crisis in Public Service during the Dark Years
- By Laurent Joly
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2016/3 No 63-3)
The Social Contexts of Denunciations of Jews during the Occupation
- By Laurent Joly
In Archives Juives (2013/1 Vol. 46)
Vichy, the Jews, and revisionism from 1945 to the present day
- By Laurent Joly
In Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah (2025/1 N° 221)
Anti-Semite Denunciation During the Occupation
- By Laurent Joly
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2007/4 No 96)
The Origins of the Action Français (1899-1914) or the Elaboration of an Anti-Semite Nationalism
- By Laurent Joly
In Revue historique (2006/3 No 639)
The French Civil Service and the Status of Jews (June 2, 1941)
- By Laurent Joly
In Archives Juives (2008/1 Vol. 41)
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Articles
Vichy, the Jews, and revisionism from 1945 to the present day
In Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah (2025/1 N° 221)
Anatomy of a historical falsification. A reading of a recent rant on Vichy and the Holocaust
A discussion of Jean-Marc Berlière, Emmanuel de Chambost, and René Fiévet, Histoire d’une falsification. Vichy et la Shoah dans l’Histoire officielle et le discours commémoratif, Paris, L’Artilleur, 2023, 325 pages, ISBN 978-2-8100-1154-4
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2023/3 No 70-3)
They took your mother and your little sister...’ The Great Rafle of 16 July 1942 in one Neighbourhood of the 3rd Arrondissement of Paris
In Histoire urbaine (2022/1 No 62)
Introduction
In Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah (2020/2 No 212)
A 1967 letter on Pierre Laval and the Vél’ d’Hiv roundup
René de Chambrun, Claude Levy, and Joseph Kessel
In Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah (2020/2 No 212)
A Frenchman in Germany: Police superintendent Louit, from Gestapo prisons to the French Repatriation Committee (Berlin, 1942–1945)
In Guerres mondiales et conflits... (2019/2 No 274)
Introduction
In Guerres mondiales et conflits... (2019/2 No 274)
What did French police know about the fate of Jewish deportees? Reflections on the “Sadosky Report” (Berlin-Paris, 20 July 1942)
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2018/3 No 139)
Applying for a Job at the Commissariat général aux Questions juives (1941-1944). State Antisemitism and a Recruitment Crisis in Public Service during the Dark Years
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2016/3 No 63-3)
Remembering, accusing, justifying oneself: The first accounts concerning France and the French during the dark years (1944–1949)
- By Laurent Joly
- and Françoise Passera
In Guerres mondiales et conflits... (2016/3 No 263)
Introduction
- By Laurent Joly
- and Françoise Passera
In Guerres mondiales et conflits... (2016/3 No 263)
Fascism and Antisemitism in France in the 1930s: an Unavoidable Convergence?
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2015/2 No 62-2/3)
Daniel Lee, Pétain’s Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, 1940-1942 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) XIV-274 p., ISBN 978-0-19-870715-8
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2015/2 No 62-2/3)
The Case of Annette Zelman and the Beginnings of the “Final Solution” in France (May–June 1942)
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2013/3 No 119)
The Social Contexts of Denunciations of Jews during the Occupation
In Archives Juives (2013/1 Vol. 46)
Introduction
In Archives Juives (2013/1 Vol. 46)
From One War to Another: L'Action française and the Jews, from Sacred Union to National Revolution (1914 – 1944)
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2012/4 No 59-4)
Gabriel Monod and the “Monod-State”. A Nationalist Campaign by Charles Maurras (1897–1931)
In Revue historique (2012/4 No 664)
Anti-Semitic Prejudice between Common Sense and Broad French Humor
Clément Vautel (1876–1954): Columnist and Novelist
In Archives Juives (2010/1 Vol. 43)
Introduction
In Archives Juives (2008/1 Vol. 41)
The French Civil Service and the Status of Jews (June 2, 1941)
In Archives Juives (2008/1 Vol. 41)
Louis Darquier before Darquier de Pellepoix: Biographical Lessons from a 1931 Unpublished Manuscript
In Archives Juives (2007/2 Vol. 40)
Anti-Semite Denunciation During the Occupation
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2007/4 No 96)
Anti-Semites and Anti-Semitism in the Chamber of Deputies under the Third Republic
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2007/3 No 54-3)
The Origins of the Action Français (1899-1914) or the Elaboration of an Anti-Semite Nationalism
In Revue historique (2006/3 No 639)