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Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar

Born

in Paris, France

April 23, 1909

Died

April 19, 1987

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Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar (1909-87), the daughter of Jules Perquel, a financier and newspaper editor, and Ellen Allatini, was brought up in the Paris suburb of Passy. In 1928 she went to the Sorbonne and in 1930 married André Amar (1908-90), who was at the École Normale Supérieure; he was the son of a banker who had come to Paris from Salonika. The Amars' daughter Sylvie was born in 1934; meanwhile Jacqueline wrote magazine articles. When war broke out the family lived in Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice and nine different places in Paris, often separately because André was first in the French army and then joined a Jewish resistance network. After 1945 the Amars largely devoted their lives to Jewish causes. In 1957 Jacqueline's diary for 18th July-2 ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 113 ratings · 22 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Maman, What Are We Called Now? by Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar, Francine Yorke (Translator) 4.12 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1957 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The conscience of the civilised world--what is that? What does it mean? Is there irony in the words? Perhaps not, or, if there is, we are all accountable. Perhaps we should not always lay the blame elsewhere, on others--General de Gaulle, Anthony Eden, the Allied Armies, President Roosevelt. It's too easy. The conscience of the civilised world belongs to everyone, it's your conscience and mine. We are all responsible. Human beings are responsible for one another and they must be answerable not only for the things they have done but also for the things they have not done, not only for the things they have thought about but also for those they have failed to think about. History is made up of an infinite series of links, a whole network of responsibilities.”
― Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar, Maman, What Are We Called Now?

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“Everything is connected. Humanity is bound together. All crimes are collective. Desperately concerned as we are for our own deportees over there, whose fate haunts our days and nights, we must never forget the horror of every torched house, the tragedy of every hostage shot, or the fear of every naked victim shivering in the cold.
In the words of the great poet John Donne, '...never send to know/For whom the bell tolls/It tolls for thee.”
― Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar, Maman, What Are We Called Now?

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“It's up to us to fill these children's lives. It's up to us to help them understand the world they live in, to show them those things which are base and harsh, but also those things which are fine; they will meet cruel indifference but they will also meet with kindness and love; our job is to help them accept the human condition in its entirety. We owe them this support. It's not a gift, but restitution, not charity, but justice...We will restore their hope, because they are our only hope in a world in which we have failed.”
― Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar, Maman, What Are We Called Now?

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