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
"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
6 x 9, 388 pages, 22 black and white illustrations
December 1999