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All too often, research on the Holocaust appears as a framed still-life: studies of Nazi crimes in concentration camps. These portraits might be compared to computer-generated movie scripts - the cast, the locale, and the plot always match the viewer's expectations. Jews belong there, but exclusively as victims, without agency, statistical numbers, bloodless. In Holocaust Resistance in Europe and America: New Aspects and Dilemmas, a small group of scholars reach beyond the conventional portraits to shed light on the critical issues, such as Jews as resistors, Jews as living beings in real situations. Here the locale is not a camp, but the expanse of Eastern Europe, the cities, towns, and communities, where a huge part of the Holocaust actually happened. And the plot is not a conventional unfolding of evil design, but the confusion, cruelty, and killing of real people by other real people. One has to acknowledge the innovations of Victoria Khiterer, who emphasizes the Jewish struggle and ultimate victory of the Red Army. But again, not the Red Army as an abstraction, but a Red Army consisting of Jews, Russians, and other nationalities, individuals with literally thousands of different biographies. Such is Holocaust history at its finest. Brian HorowitzSizeler Family Chair Professor, Tulane University This important volume explores resistance according to its broadest definition. Moving well beyond the focus on armed resistance that once characterized research on the Holocaust, it examines resistance inside and outside of Europe, as performed by victims and bystanders before, during and after the war, and in a great variety of forms. The authors also rely on a wide range of sources including archival, literary, testimonial and memorial. This is a truly innovative and constructive approach to resistance during the Holocaust and will certainly help to broaden the scholarly conversation. Eliyana R. AdlerAssociate Professor in History and Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University This important and well-researched book, the product of a conference held at Millersville University in 2014, gives a many-sided and comprehensive account of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. It is essential reading for all those interested in the history of the Second World War. Antony PolonskyEmeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University; Chief Historian, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews Thanks to the originality and high quality of its content, this volume will surely occupy an important place in studies on the Holocaust. Gennady EstraikhClinical Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University

"""All too often, research on the Holocaust appears as a framed still-life: studies of Nazi crimes in concentration camps. These portraits might be compared to computer-generated movie scripts – the cast, the locale, and the plot always match the viewer’s expectations. Jews belong there, but exclusively as victims, without agency, statistical numbers, bloodless. In Holocaust Resistance in Europe and America: New Aspects and Dilemmas, a small group of scholars reach beyond the conventional portraits to shed light on the critical issues, such as Jews as resistors, Jews as living beings in real situations. Here the locale is not a camp, but the expanse of Eastern Europe, the cities, towns, and communities, where a huge part of the Holocaust actually happened. And the plot is not a conventional unfolding of evil design, but the confusion, cruelty, and killing of real people by other real people. One has to acknowledge the innovations of Victoria Khiterer, who emphasizes the Jewish struggle and ultimate victory of the Red Army. But again, not the Red Army as an abstraction, but a Red Army consisting of Jews, Russians, and other nationalities, individuals with literally thousands of different biographies. Such is Holocaust history at its finest.""Brian HorowitzSizeler Family Chair Professor, Tulane University""This important volume explores resistance according to its broadest definition. Moving well beyond the focus on armed resistance that once characterized research on the Holocaust, it examines resistance inside and outside of Europe, as performed by victims and bystanders before, during and after the war, and in a great variety of forms. The authors also rely on a wide range of sources including archival, literary, testimonial and memorial. This is a truly innovative and constructive approach to resistance during the Holocaust and will certainly help to broaden the scholarly conversation.""Eliyana R. AdlerAssociate Professor in History and Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University""This important and well-researched book, the product of a conference held at Millersville University in 2014, gives a many-sided and comprehensive account of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. It is essential reading for all those interested in the history of the Second World War.""Antony PolonskyEmeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University; Chief Historian, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews""Thanks to the originality and high quality of its content, this volume will surely occupy an important place in studies on the Holocaust.""Gennady EstraikhClinical Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University"

'All too often, research on the Holocaust appears as a framed still-life: studies of Nazi crimes in concentration camps. These portraits might be compared to computer-generated movie scripts – the cast, the locale, and the plot always match the viewer's expectations. Jews belong there, but exclusively as victims, without agency, statistical numbers, bloodless. In Holocaust Resistance in Europe and America: New Aspects and Dilemmas, a small group of scholars reach beyond the conventional portraits to shed light on the critical issues, such as Jews as resistors, Jews as living beings in real situations. Here the locale is not a camp, but the expanse of Eastern Europe, the cities, towns, and communities, where a huge part of the Holocaust actually happened. And the plot is not a conventional unfolding of evil design, but the confusion, cruelty, and killing of real people by other real people. One has to acknowledge the innovations of Victoria Khiterer, who emphasizes the Jewish struggle and ultimate victory of the Red Army. But again, not the Red Army as an abstraction, but a Red Army consisting of Jews, Russians, and other nationalities, individuals with literally thousands of different biographies. Such is Holocaust history at its finest.'Brian HorowitzSizeler Family Chair Professor, Tulane University'This important volume explores resistance according to its broadest definition. Moving well beyond the focus on armed resistance that once characterized research on the Holocaust, it examines resistance inside and outside of Europe, as performed by victims and bystanders before, during and after the war, and in a great variety of forms. The authors also rely on a wide range of sources including archival, literary, testimonial and memorial. This is a truly innovative and constructive approach to resistance during the Holocaust and will certainly help to broaden the scholarly conversation.'Eliyana R. AdlerAssociate Professor in History and Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University'This important and well-researched book, the product of a conference held at Millersville University in 2014, gives a many-sided and comprehensive account of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. It is essential reading for all those interested in the history of the Second World War.'Antony PolonskyEmeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University; Chief Historian, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews'Thanks to the originality and high quality of its content, this volume will surely occupy an important place in studies on the Holocaust.'Gennady EstraikhClinical Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University

All too often, research on the Holocaust appears as a framed still-life: studies of Nazi crimes in concentration camps. These portraits might be compared to computer-generated movie scripts - the cast, the locale, and the plot always match the viewer's expectations. Jews belong there, but exclusively as victims, without agency, statistical numbers, bloodless. In Holocaust Resistance in Europe and America: New Aspects and Dilemmas, a small group of scholars reach beyond the conventional portraits to shed light on the critical issues, such as Jews as resistors, Jews as living beings in real situations. Here the locale is not a camp, but the expanse of Eastern Europe, the cities, towns, and communities, where a huge part of the Holocaust actually happened. And the plot is not a conventional unfolding of evil design, but the confusion, cruelty, and killing of real people by other real people. One has to acknowledge the innovations of Victoria Khiterer, who emphasizes the Jewish struggle and ultimate victory of the Red Army. But again, not the Red Army as an abstraction, but a Red Army consisting of Jews, Russians, and other nationalities, individuals with literally thousands of different biographies. Such is Holocaust history at its finest. Brian Horowitz Sizeler Family Chair Professor, Tulane University This important volume explores resistance according to its broadest definition. Moving well beyond the focus on armed resistance that once characterized research on the Holocaust, it examines resistance inside and outside of Europe, as performed by victims and bystanders before, during and after the war, and in a great variety of forms. The authors also rely on a wide range of sources including archival, literary, testimonial and memorial. This is a truly innovative and constructive approach to resistance during the Holocaust and will certainly help to broaden the scholarly conversation. Eliyana R. Adler Associate Professor in History and Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University This important and well-researched book, the product of a conference held at Millersville University in 2014, gives a many-sided and comprehensive account of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. It is essential reading for all those interested in the history of the Second World War. Antony Polonsky Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University; Chief Historian, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews Thanks to the originality and high quality of its content, this volume will surely occupy an important place in studies on the Holocaust. Gennady Estraikh Clinical Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University

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Victoria Khiterer is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide at Millersville University, USA. She is the author and editor of six books and over ninety articles on Russian and Eastern European Jewish history. Her most recent book Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel? A History of the Jews in Kiev before February 1917 was published in 2016.

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