This fine collection of essays by leading scholars covers a broad scope of German-Jewish responses to Nazi policies ranging from self-help and everyday endurance to the Zionist alternative and racial recategorization to avoid deportation. The accessible style and continuity make this volume suitable for undergraduate or advanced classes on German or Jewish history or on the Holocaust itself. The excellent ... Read moredocumentary annex makes the book especially helpful.
Norman JW Goda, Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Florida - a well written volume - Each essay furnishes very useful, unique information about everyday Jewish life in Nazi Germany and the way in which such activities changed as conditions worsened. This approach is not often found in Holocaust scholarship - There is also a very useful appendix of primary source documents. This book is highly recommended for Holocaust collections.
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