Women Defying Hitler

Nathan Stoltzfus is Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies and of History at Florida State University, USA. He is the author of Hitler's Compromises (2016) and Resistance of the Heart (1996), which was a co-recipient of the Institute of Contemporary History's Fraenkel Prize.Mordecai Paldiel is Adjunct Professor in Jewish History at Yeshiva University, USA. He is the author of several books, including Saving One's Own (2017) and The Righteous Among the Nations (2007).Judy Baumel-Schwartz is Director of the Schulman School of Basic Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She is the author of many books including Double Jeopardy (1998), Perfect Heroes (2010), and Identity, Heroism and Religion in the Lives of Contemporary Jewish Women (2013).

• List of ContributorsForeword, David Gill (New York German Consul-General, USA)Women Defying Hitler: An Introduction, Mordecai Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA) and Nathan Stoltzfus (Florida State University, USA)1. Cumulative Radicalization: Intermarriage under Hitler and Remembrance, Nathan Stoltzfus (Florida State University, USA)2. Whoever Saves One Life, Saves an Entire World: The Women Rescuers of Jews, Mordecai Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA) 3. Resisting Obliteration: Learning about the Lives and Deaths of Jewish Women during the Holocaust Judy Baumel-Schwartz (Bar-Ilan University and the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Israel)4. Defiance and Resistance to Nazism from the Perspective of Gender, Class and Generation, Volker Berghahn (Columbia University, USA)5. The Women's Protest on Rosenstrasse between Commemoration, Idealization and Debate, Susanne Heim (Freiburg University, Germany)6. Rescue through Intervention in the Nazi Decision Making Process: Protest in Goebbel's Berlin, Nathan Stoltzfus and Chris Osmar (both Florida State University, USA)7. Gariwo's Philosophy: Educate to Optimism and Responsibility through the Memory of the Righteous, Gabriele Nissim (Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Organization (GARIWO), Italy)8. Women and Resistance: New Perspectives on Germany and France, Anne Nelson (Columbia University, USA)9. Jewish Women Rescuers of Jews, Mordecia Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA) 10. Is Food Protest Political? Women's Demonstrations in Occupied France, Paula Schwartz (Middlebury College, USA)11. Reflections on Rosenstrasse: With an Excerpt from Broken Glass, Broken Lives -- A Jewish Girl's Survival Story in Berlin, 1933-1945, Ruth Wiseman (Rita Kuhn's daughter)12. The Mischlinge Expose: Stories of Assimilation and Conversation, Carolyn Enger (descendant of an intermarried coupleEpilogue, Mordecai Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA)AppendixSelect BibliographyIndex

Women Defying Hitler is a thorough volume that tackles the historiographical imbalanceagainst women’s rescue activities and provides guidance for how we can remember these sacrifices and apply them to the modern day.