The Jews of Białystok During World War Two and the Holocaust, Sara Bender (Brandeis University Press, 2008), xiv + 384 pp., cloth 50.00
After his appointment in 1942 as deputy commander of the ghetto police in Białystok, Poland, Moshe Berman remarked: “If at some point a monograph is written on the ghetto, we shall deserve an honourable mention” (p. 137). His hopes are fulfilled in Sara Bender's clear narrative—a narrative that...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 300-302 |
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| Summary: | After his appointment in 1942 as deputy commander of the ghetto police in Białystok, Poland, Moshe Berman remarked: “If at some point a monograph is written on the ghetto, we shall deserve an honourable mention” (p. 137). His hopes are fulfilled in Sara Bender's clear narrative—a narrative that offers a fairly sympathetic rendering of the Jewish leadership within the Białystok ghetto. In telling the story of the city's Jews, Bender sensibly adopts a chronological structure to capture the radical changes they experienced living in one of Europe's border zones. But she also focuses on the unlikely relationship of two leading ghetto personalities who saw differing solutions to Nazi rule. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq030 |