Resilience and Courage
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Women, Men, and the Holocaust
Nechama Tec
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In this, Nechama Tec’s fifth book on the Holocaust, vivid individual stories blend effortlessly with detailed comparisons of wartime experiences of women and men. The result is a captivating account of how the coping strategies and the ultimate fate of each sex differed. Tec, as always, listens to the voices of the oppressed, voices that originated in wartime diaries, postwar memoirs, archival materials, and her own interviews with survivors and rescuers. Concentrating on life under extreme conditions, Tec’s research uncovers the previously overlooked significance of mutual cooperation and compassion that operated across gender lines.
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Nechama Tec has been appointed to the President’s Council for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
“Tec has produced a refreshingly nuanced study of the coping strategies employed by women and men during the Holocaust. Based on wide ranging and meticulous research, Tec’s remarkable book is essential reading for anyone wanting to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of Jewish resistance.”—Dr. Zoë Waxman, Mansfield College, Oxford
"A welcome addition to the small but growing collection of analyses of gender and women's experiences during the Holocaust. . . . Tec's skillful interview techniques and ability to smoothly interweave narratives and historical background result in a book with both human warmth and contextual accuracy. . . . Tec's writing combines the analytical skills of a trained sociologist with her personal experience of living through the Holocaust."—Rochelle G. Saidel, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
“An impressive achievement.”—Jewish Currents
“This landmark book draws on published and unpublished memoirs and diaries, as well as Tec’s insightful interviews, giving form and context to a wide range of first-person accounts. In exploring and contrasting the experiences of women and men, Tec has given us anew lens for understanding the lives of victims and survivors.”—Bonny V. Fetterman, Na’amat Woman
“Revealing and eminently readable to both the general reader and the scholar, Resilience and Courage: Women, Men and the Holocaust is essential reading for both because it is riveting and broadly informative.”—Jane Lunin Perel, Providence: Studies in Western Civilization
“This landmark study draws on published and unpublished memoirs and diaries as well as Tec’s insightful interviews. In exploring and contrasting the experience of women and men, Tec has given us a new lens for understanding the lives of victims and survivors.”—Reform Judaism
“A well-written and researched example of contemporary gender exploration, using a sociological framework in order also to impart a historical account. The fact that the author is also a survivor has added—and not subtracted—from the level of scholarship shown in this study. Her empathy and personal experiences have enabled her to reach interviewees who have opened up to her in ways that they might not have to other researchers. The hidden depths that she has tapped in them have undoubtedly enriched our knowledge of Holocaust experience.”—Judith Tydor Baumel, Yad Vashem Studies
Publication Date: March 11, 2003