Reviews

"The product of a rare combination of qualifications on the part of its author: the indelible experience of personal involvement during youth, and the dispassionate professionalism of an academic scholar...Carefully researched and comprehensive in its treatment of what happened inside a community under siege, Adler's work will be of interest to all scholars of French and Jewish affairs."--History: Reviews of New Books
"The special contribution of Adler's work is its examination of the array of responses by the Jewish community to such hitherto unsurpassed barbarity in France...Adler's book is both a primary and a secondary source, and the scholarship on which its rests is impressive."--CHOICE
"A timely and distinguished addition to the immense body of Holocaust literature."--Los Angeles Times
"A profoundly scholarly and moving book...Does full justice to the evils of Nazism and the human frailties of its victims."--History
"A scholarly and perceptive study."--Booklist
"His research displays remarkable objectivity, while reflecting the survivor's zeal to set the record straight."--Times Literary Supplement
"Offer[s] valuable contributions to the study of French Jewish responses to the Holocaust."--Journal of Modern History
"A thoughtful, thorough exploration."--Kirkus Reviews
"There is a great deal of objective scholarship here...its value is enormously enhanced by the threads of remembered hiistory which give it texture and color....This is an important contribution to an infinitely wider debate."--English Historical Review
"This is a well-written and interesting book."--Judaica Book News Reviews

"The product of a rare combination of qualifications on the part of its author: the indelible experience of personal involvement during youth, and the dispassionate professionalism of an academic scholar...Carefully researched and comprehensive in its treatment of what happened inside a community under siege, Adler's work will be of interest to all scholars of French and Jewish affairs."--History: Reviews of New Books "The special contribution of Adler's work is its examination of the array of responses by the Jewish community to such hitherto unsurpassed barbarity in France...Adler's book is both a primary and a secondary source, and the scholarship on which its rests is impressive."--CHOICE "A timely and distinguished addition to the immense body of Holocaust literature."--Los Angeles Times "A profoundly scholarly and moving book...Does full justice to the evils of Nazism and the human frailties of its victims."--History "A scholarly and perceptive study."--Booklist "His research displays remarkable objectivity, while reflecting the survivor's zeal to set the record straight."--Times Literary Supplement "Offer[s] valuable contributions to the study of French Jewish responses to the Holocaust."--Journal of Modern History "A thoughtful, thorough exploration."--Kirkus Reviews "There is a great deal of objective scholarship here...its value is enormously enhanced by the threads of remembered hiistory which give it texture and color....This is an important contribution to an infinitely wider debate."--English Historical Review "This is a well-written and interesting book."--Judaica Book News Reviews