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Brenner s textual analysis is most impressive The Ethics of Witnessing is an important and most welcome contribution and a must- read for everyone interested in the growing field of witnessing the genocide in wartime Eastern Europe, the well- established literature on Holocaust testimony, and the study of relations between Jews and non- Jews in occupied Poland. The Polish Review

...a fascinating inquiry into the almost unbearable pressure to which [the Holocaust] subjected individuals' sense of empathy. --Holocaust and Genocide Studies It is a trailblazing work...The Ethics of Witnessing by Rachel Brenner will undoubtedly become one of the most important frames of reference in future research of Polish attitudes toward the Holocaust. The author's scholarly passion, buttressed by erudition and research skills, result in a book that cannot be ignored by anyone addressing the subjects raised within it. --Yad Vashem This is an excellent book that deserves to be widely read. --Slavic Review Brenner's textual analysis is most impressive...The Ethics of Witnessing is an important and most welcome contribution and a must- read for everyone interested in the growing field of witnessing the genocide in wartime Eastern Europe, the well- established literature on Holocaust testimony, and the study of relations between Jews and non- Jews in occupied Poland. --The Polish Review

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Rachel Feldhay Brenner is a Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies and Modern Hebrew Literature at the Canter for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author, among other books, of The Freedom to Write: The Woman-Artist and the World in Ruth Almog’s Fiction (2008) [in Hebrew], Inextricably Bonded: Israeli Jewish and Arab Writers Re-Visioning Culture (2003) and Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty Hillesum (1997).

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