SARA BENDER is associate professor in the Department of Jewish History at Haifa University. She is the associate editor of Yad Vashem's Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations (2007).
[An] outstanding achievement. . . . Bender positions the events of
wartime in relation to the prewar existence of the Jews such as the
various political and religious divisions and reveals how these
were manifested in the ghetto, particularly the resistance
movement. Bender is also acutely aware of the extent to which
events and forces outside the ghetto, including developments of
which the Bia ystok Jews were ignorant, influenced Nazi policy and
actions. Her judgments concerning key individuals are noteworthy
for their empathy and offer plausible explanations for why they
acted as they did and why, at critical moments, they were seemingly
paralyzed. After all, nothing they could do would change the
ultimate, fatal end that the Nazis had planned. Slavic Review"
Indispensable. . . Bender includes an invaluable comparison of the
response of the Bialystok ghetto to other major ghettos such as
Warsaw, Vilna, and Lodz, contrasting the efforts of Barash s
leadership with those of other major Judenrat leaders such as Adam
Cerniakow, Jacob Gens, and Chaim Rumkowski. Jewish Book World"
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