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Women Defying Hitler
Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis
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This volume serves as a guide to human behaviour amid extreme adversity, relevant today for its examination of discrimination against women and minorities standing up for human rights. It demonstrates the significant role of women resistors in challenging a totalitarian regime.
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This book is essential for scholars and readers interested in women’s studies, Holocaust history, Nazi Germany, and human rights activism. It suits those seeking nuanced academic analysis as well as compelling historical narratives about women’s courageous resistance during World War II.
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This timely volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to explore the ways that women responded to situations of immense deprivation, need, and victimisation under Hitler’s dictatorship. Paying acute attention to the differences that gender made, Women Defying Hitler examines the forms of women’s defiance, the impact these women had, and the moral and ethical dilemmas they faced.
Several essays also address the special problems of the memory and historiography of women’s history during World War II, and the book features standpoints of historians as well as the voices of survivors and their descendants.
Notably, this book also serves as a guide for human behaviour under extremely difficult conditions. The book is relevant today for challenging discrimination against women and for its nuanced exploration of the conditions minorities face as outspoken protagonists of human rights issues and as resisters of discrimination. From this perspective, the voices being empowered in this book are clear examples of the importance of protest by women in forcing a totalitarian regime to pause and reconsider its options for the moment.
In revealing so, Women Defying Hitler ultimately foregrounds that women rescuers and resisters were and are of great continuing consequence.
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Women Defying Hitler is praised as a thorough and major contribution to Holocaust and feminist studies, correcting historiographical imbalances around women’s roles in rescue and resistance activities. It offers invaluable insights for scholars and general readers interested in war, women’s history, and Holocaust studies. Experts commend the book for shedding light on both well-known and lesser-known stories of women’s resistance under Nazi Germany.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350201545
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 September 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Contributors:
- Edited by Professor Nathan Stoltzfus
- Edited by Professor Mordecai Paldiel
- Edited by Professor Judy Baumel-Schwartz
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 380g
Pages: 232
About the Author
Nathan Stoltzfus is Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies and of History at Florida State University, USA. He is the author of Hitler's Compromises (2016) and Resistance of the Heart (1996), which was a co-recipient of the Institute of Contemporary History's Fraenkel Prize.
Mordecai Paldiel is Adjunct Professor in Jewish History at Yeshiva University, USA. He is the author of several books, including Saving One's Own (2017) and The Righteous Among the Nations (2007).
Judy Baumel-Schwartz is Director of the Schulman School of Basic Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She is the author of many books including Double Jeopardy (1998), Perfect Heroes (2010), and Identity, Heroism and Religion in the Lives of Contemporary Jewish Women (2013).
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