Synopses & Reviews
Although much has been written about the resistance to the Holocaust, public discussion still almost exclusively focuses on the resistance of male non-Jews. This reader seeks to redress the imbalance by looking at resistance from the perspective of the victims, almost exclusively Jewish and, in some cases, female. Their resistance embraces a variety of actions and movements, passive and active, performed by individuals, groups and nations. Leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines - including anthropology, history, politics, and sociology - supply us with engrossing accounts of individual resisters, family groups, movements, and the resistance of entire nations. Contributions cover:
· Primo Levi and Survival in Auschwitz
· The Auschwitz Children's Camp
· The Warsaw Ghetto Youth Movement
· Intermarriage in Nazi Germany
· Jewish Women in the French Resistance
· Foundations of Resistance in German-Occupied Denmark
This book places the fact of Jewish resistance in a new light and represents an important sourcebook on studies of the Holocaust, German and Jewish history.
Review
"Resisting the Holocaust' is a fine, academic study, by no means the first, showing the reality of Jewish resistance, and disputing the stereotype of the passive Jew." --
Jewish Chronicle"Ruby Rohrlich has given an immense service to this and future generations: her immaculate scholarship and her wide spectrum of interest has gathered together an archive of extraordinary value." --Feminist Theology
"A short review cannot begin to do justice to the ... thought-provoking articles in the volume, which deserves to be on any recommended reading list in a Holocaust studies course." --Studies in American Jewish Literature
"This is an important work, one that will help considerably in countering . . .historical nelect [of the topic of resistance]" --H-NET Book Review
"Rohrlich's selection of essays . . . Provide documentation and affirmation of the possibility of human dignity." --Seedhouse
"A good introduction to Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. It holds together well . . . covers so much ground, from armed resistance in the ghetto and the Nazi occupied lands, to strategies of survival in the death camps, a subject which several essays deal with especially well." --Ethnic and Racial Studies
"The essays work well together and are thoughtful, well-documented investigations of the complexities of resistance to the Holocaust." --Judaism
About the Author
Ruby Rohrlich is Professor Emerita, at the City University of New York and a Research Professor, at George Washington University.