Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa
"[A] profound, subtle, and deeply moving book."—Boston Globe
"Roskies's work, densely argued, richly allusive, exemplary in its far-ranging scholarship, is itself a deeply felt response to the Holocaust and its memories; an affirmation of continuities as well as violent endings."—Times Literary Supplement
"Eloquent and moving . . . Against the Apocalypse documents a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender."—New York Times Book Review
David G. Roskies is the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
