Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture
Eloquent and moving...daring and comprehensive...What Mr. Roskies has accomplished inAgainst the Apocalypsedocuments a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender (New York Times Book Review)This majestic work has a quality, almost unseen today, of being at the same time erudite and elegantly written. (Hadassah Magazine)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)In this profound, subtle, and deeply moving book, Roskies lets us listen to the dialogue that the Nazis destroyed. It is hard to imagine a better way of keeping faith with those who died. (Boston Globe)A probing, seasoned, brilliant work. (Los Angeles Times)