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Resistance: How Jews and Christians Fought Back against the Nazis

Autor Nechama Tec
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 aug 2013
A common perception of Jews during World War II is that they were passive and submissive in the face of German oppression. In Resistance, Holocaust scholar Nechama Tec questions the validity of this widely held assumption, arguing that rather than making empty claims about Jewish passivity or heroics during the Holocaust, a systematic comparison of Jewish and non-Jewish resistance is needed. Using firsthand accounts and interviews, Tec examines the four main settings of the war--ghetto, concentration camp, forest and countryside, and the Aryan world--and describes what life was like for Jews and non-Jews in each. Tec's comparisons show that even when Jewish and non-Jewish groups were in the same place at the same time, each faced vastly different conditions, and opportunities for Jewish resistance were far scarcer and more complicated than for their non-Jewish counterparts. Given the unique Jewish predicament, Tec explains that Jewish resistance had different aims--in particular, Jewish efforts emphasized recovery of dignity and salvation of lives, rather than large-scale thwarting of their oppressors. This illuminating book also explores the larger concept of resistance, often too narrowly equated with armed attempts or too broadly equated with attempts merely to survive. Tec brilliantly argues that resistance is dependent on the oppressed party's intent and the particular nature of the oppression faced. Closely reasoned and eloquently constructed, Resistance reinvigorates the discussion about resistance in World War II.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199735419
ISBN-10: 0199735417
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Refreshingly non-jargony and full of (understandably) powerful and tragic illustrations, Resistance draws on documented sources as well as Tec's own interviews with survivors.
This enlightening book is a carefully argued and cleverly assembled discussion that challenges stereotypes about Jewish resistance in the Second World War
Tec's book presents an excellent overview of the Jewish and non- Jewish resistance activities during the Second World War, at the time when the desperate situation led the victims of the Nazi persecution to commit desperate acts.
a rare form of resistance finally gaining the attention in Holocaust scholarship it has always deserved.

Notă biografică

Nechama Tec is a Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Conneticut, Stamford, and the bestselling author of Defiance, now a major motion picture. Her other books include Dry Tears, In the Lion's Den, and When Light Pierced the Darkness.