Resistance
Seminar questions:
How can we conceptualize resistance in the Holocaust?
What made kashariot so successful?
Is resistance still valid if it fails?
Core readings:
(Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press & USHMM, 2003): ch. Resistance (240-272).
The Kashariyot (Couriers) in the Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust, in Lessons and Legacies VI, ed. Jeffry Diefendorf (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996): 112-154.
Extended readings:
Gad Beck, An underground life : memoirs of a gay Jew in Nazi Berlin (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999).
Wolf Gruner, "The Germans should expel the Foreigner Hitler鈥�. Open Protest and Other Forms of Jewish Defiance in Nazi Germany," Yad Vashem Studies, Vol. 39 (2011).
Israel Gutman, Resistance : the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1994).
Samuel Kassow, Who will write our history? : rediscovering a hidden archive from the Warsaw Ghetto (New York: Vintage Books, 2009).
Detlev Peukert, Inside Nazi Germany : conformity, opposition and racism in everyday life (Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1989) especially here:
Renee Poznanski, Jews in France during World War II (Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, 2001).
Nechama Tec, Defiance : the Bielski partisans (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993).
Anika Walke, Pioneers and partisans : an oral history of Nazi genocide in Belorussia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).