The dominant theme of post-Holocaust Jewish theology has been that of the temporary
hiddenness of God, interpreted either as a divine mystery or, more commonly, as God's …

Nechama Tec's Defiance, an account of a Jewish partisan unit that fought the Nazis in the
Polish forests during World War II, was turned into a major feature film. Yet despite the …

This chapter proposes that to understand how people survive adversity people need to study
the ordinary as well as the extraordinary in their lives. The research was initiated through …

This ambitious study provides a sweeping overview of the position of women in England,
France, Germany, and Russia/USSR during a seminal period in world history. Comparing …

Responding to the increasingly influential role of Hannah Arendt's political philosophy in
recent years, Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Total Domination: The Holocaust, Plurality …

Since the 1980s, Holocaust scholarship has slowly begun to render Jewish women visible,
reclaiming their experiences and illuminating the richness of their voices and cultures during …

'The road to annihilation was marked by events that specifically affected men as men and
women as women.'1 Yet, the subject of gender is a relative newcomer in the wider field of …

Millions of pages in dozens of languages have described, reported, and analyzed the twelve
years that comprise the Nazi peri-od. Far fewer pages document the experiences of women …

The essay deals with the lives of Jewish women survivors in liberated Germany during the
years 1945-1948. Among the topics dealt with are the identities of these women, the roles …

This dissertation enhances and complicates the history of Nazi racial and sexual policies by
examining the quotidian politics of ten brothels staffed by and for prisoners that operated in …