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Unlike many Holocaust books, which deal primarily with the concentration camps, this book focuses on Jewish life before Jews lost their autonomy and fell totally under Nazi power. These essays concern various aspects of Jewish daily life and governance, such as the Judenrat, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, religious life, housing, death, smuggling, art, and the struggle for survival while under siege by the Nazi regime. Written by survivors of the ghettos throughout Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, this collection contains historical and cultural articles by prominent scholars, an essay on Holocaust theatre, and an article on teaching the Holocaust to students.

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9780815608035

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[Life in the Ghettos During the Holocaust] is the cooperative effort of some of the finest scholars in the field who examine with objectivity and great authority the responses of the Jews where 'death was a given; how to live in the interim was not.' . . . [It] demonstrates that the inmates' responses included selflessness, radical possessiveness indifferent to the social costs. . . . [This book] sheds light on the miserable but complex state of relations between the Jewish resistance and other Jews with the non-Jewish population.-- ""Richard L. Rubinstein, author of After Auschwitz: History, Theology, and Contemporary Judaism""

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Eric J. Sterling, Distinguished Research Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery, earned his Ph.D. in English at Indiana University. Both his mother and grandfather lived through the Holocaust the latter as a survivor of Buchenwald.

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