Francophone Jewish Writers Imagining Israel (2015)
Book
Cairns, L. (2015). Francophone Jewish Writers Imagining Israel. Liverpool University Press

This book considers the differing emotional investments in Israel of, on the one hand, Jews physically domiciled in Israel and, on the other hand, diasporic Jews living outside Israel for whom the country nonetheless forms a central point of affect.... Read More about Francophone Jewish Writers Imagining Israel.

Bodily Dis-Ease in Contemporary French Women’s Writing: Two Case Studies (2015)
Journal Article
Cairns, L. (2015). Bodily Dis-Ease in Contemporary French Women’s Writing: Two Case Studies. French Studies, 69(4), 494-508. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knv150

This article examines two twenty-first-century autobiographical accounts of the intense — and ultimately life-threatening — mental and bodily dis-ease endured by two young French women from adolescence into early adulthood. Annick Loupias's La Tortue... Read More about Bodily Dis-Ease in Contemporary French Women’s Writing: Two Case Studies.

Jewish Children’s Homes in Post-Holocaust France. Personal Témoignages (2015)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L. (2015). Jewish Children’s Homes in Post-Holocaust France. Personal Témoignages. In S. Hand, & S. T. Katz (Eds.), Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945-1955 (139-155). New York University Press

Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europe’s Jewish communities after the war ended. And unlike many other European nations in which the majority of the Jewish population perished, France... Read More about Jewish Children’s Homes in Post-Holocaust France. Personal Témoignages.