by Robert Badinter · LGF · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253820307
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«Idiss» is Robert Badinter's family chronicle, published by LGF in paperback (264 pages, in French).
Robert Badinter writes a tribute to his maternal grandmother, Idiss, a Jew from the Russian Empire who settled in Paris before 1914. Through her personal story, the book traces the European upheavals of the twentieth century, from Bessarabia to occupied France, and reflects on identity, memory and land of asylum.
French edition from Le Livre de Poche with the subtitle «Documents»; the work was originally published in 2018.
For readers of biographies, memoirs and twentieth-century family chronicles, with particular interest in France of that era.
Robert Badinter was a French lawyer, politician, and author who enacted the abolition of capital punishment in France in 1981, while serving as Minister of Justice under François Mitterrand. He also served in high-level appointed positions with national and international bodies working for justice and the rule of law.
