In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen
Author:   Nechama Tec (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780195383478


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   08 April 2010
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Nechama Tec (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780195383478


ISBN 10:   0195383478
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   08 April 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ; 1. Before and Into the War ; 2. In Search of Solutions ; 3. Imprisonment ; 4. Life on the Farm ; 5. Becoming Someone Else ; 6. The Town of Mir ; 7. Becoming a Police Officer ; 8. Working for the Authorities ; 9. The Savior of Simakowo ; 10. Involvement with the Ghetto ; 11. Organizing the Escape ; 12. Exodus and Confrontation ; 13. Conversion ; 14. Moving to the Forest ; 15. Life as a Partisan ; 16. Becoming a Carmelite Monk and a Priest ; 17. A Catholic Jew? ; 18. An Independent Life ; Notes ; Index

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Rufeisen's story is extraordinary, especially as recreated by Tec. --Publisher's Weekly<br> Tec has a good eye for historical detail. She...captures the emotional complexity of Mr.Rufeisen's position. --New York Times Book Review<br> .,. an unusual tale of heroism and survival during World War II... --Library Journal<br> A fascinating and conscientiously researched account. --The New York Review of Books<br>


<br> Rufeisen's story is extraordinary, especially as recreated by Tec. --Publisher's Weekly<br> Tec has a good eye for historical detail. She...captures the emotional complexity of Mr.Rufeisen's position. --New York Times Book Review<br>. ..an unusual tale of heroism and survival during World War II... --Library Journal<br> A fascinating and conscientiously researched account. --The New York Review of Books<br>


Author Information

Nechama Tec is Professor Emerita of Sociology at University of Connecticut, and author of several books, including Defiance, soon to be a major motion picture starring Daniel Craig, and Courage and Resilience: Women, Men and the Holocaust(Yale 2003). Internationally noted Holocaust scholar, she was appointed in 2002 to the Council of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She survived the Holocaust in Poland by passing as a Catholic in areas banned to Jews. She lives in Westport, CT with her husband, psychologist Leon Tec. Her son, Roland, is a film producer.

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