Writing OccupationAmong the Jewish writers who emigrated from Eastern Europe to France in the 1910s and 1920s, a number chose to switch from writing in their languages of origin to writing primarily in French, a language that represented both a literary center and the promises of French universalism. But under the Nazi occupation of France from 1940 to 1944, these Jewish migr writersamong them Irne Nmirovsky, Benjamin Fondane, Romain Gary, Jean Malaquais, and Elsa