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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. Times Higher Education Supplement This enlightening book is a carefully argued and cleverly assembled discussion that challenges stereotypes about Jewish resistance in the Second World War The Lady

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

<br> Rufeisen's story is extraordinary, especially as recreated by Tec. --Publisher's Weekly on In The Lion's Den<p><br> Resilience and Courage is a milestone work in the canon of Holocaust studies. Quite simply: it is the first comprehensive study of the role and function of gender during the Holocaust years. This is a work studded with insight and imbued with compassion. --Deborah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History <br><p><br> A fascinating and conscientiously researched account. --The New York Review of Books on In the Lion's Den<p><br> Defiance is an accomplished and startling work of Holocaust documentation... [Tec] has assembled [the partisans'] vivid firsthand testimony into a comprehensive study of a long-neglected aspect of the Holocaust. --Newsweek<br><p><br> Dry Tears moves me beyond words....[It] conveys an immediate sense of what [living under the Holocaust] was like, and does so strongly, even nobly, without a trace of self-pity.... My admiration has no bounds. --Robert K. Merton, Columbia University <br><p><br> Tec... has a good eye for historical detail. She illuminates the Russian partisan movement and its connection to the Jewish resistance fighters. She captures well the emotional complexity of Mr. Rufeisen's position. --The New York Times Book Review on In the Lion's Den<br><p><br> To read When Light Pierced the Darkness is to encounter the Holocaust anew from a unique and bewildering angle. --Newsweek<br><p><br> Nechama Tec's Resilience and Courage is a remarkable achievement, based on a deep knowledge of the subject, profound sociological analysis, and convincing narrative style. Tec concentrates on the oppressed rather that the oppressors, and has shown that the gender division among them was primarily a result of the policy of the perpetrators and not the manifestation of conflicts within the society of the victims. --Israel Gutman, Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem <br><p><br> Not only is Tec's book the fi

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Nechama Tec is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, Stamford, and author of the bestselling Defiance and other works on the Holocaust, including Dry Tears, In the Lion's Den, and When Light Pierced the Darkness.

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