{"product_id":"women-in-the-holocaust-9780300073546","title":"Women in the Holocaust","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs Jews throughout Europe faced Nazi persecution  Jewish women?wives  daughters  mothers?encountered special problems and had particular vulnerabilities. This is the first book of original scholarship devoted to women in the Holocaust. By examining womens unique responses  their incredible resourcefulness  their courage  and their suffering  the book enhances our understanding of the experiences of all Jews during the Nazi era.  The introductory essay by Lenore Weitzman and Dalia Ofer stakes out new intellectual territory and shows how questions about gender lead to a richer and more finely nuanced understanding of the Holocaust. Testimonies of Holocaust survivors  written especially for this book  shed light on womens lives in the ghettos  the Jewish resistance movement  and the concentration camps. The narratives personalize and exemplify many of the larger themes explored in other chapters by Holocaust historians  sociologists  and literary experts. These chapters explore the variety and complexity of gender differences during the Holocaust. The culturally defined prewar roles of Jewish men and women endowed them with different spheres of knowledge  expertise  and skills with which to face the Nazi onslaught. During the war the Nazis imposed different regulations  work requirements  and sanctions on the two sexes. Women had to assume new roles as family protectors during the ghetto period  when men were more vulnerable. In contrast women  and especially mothers  were more vulnerable in the concentration camps. The detailed portraits of women in these chapters show us their individuality  strength  and humanity.  Contributors to this volume:  Gershon Bacon  Yehuda Bauer  Daniel Blatman  Gisela Bock  Ruth Bondy  Liza Chapnik  Ida Fink  Myrna Goldenberg  Sara R. Horowitz  Paula E. Hyman  Marion Kaplan  Felicja Karay  Bronka Klibansk  Lawrence L. Langer  Dalia Ofer  Rene Poznanski  Joan Ringelheim  Nechama Tec  Michal Unger  Lidia Rosenfeld Vago  Lenore J. Weitzman\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279656738869,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300073542","price":101.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300073546.jpg?v=1780605039","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/women-in-the-holocaust-9780300073546","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}