Ari Joskowicz is associate professor of Jewish studies, history, and European studies at Vanderbilt University and the author of The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France.
Winner of the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust Library An astonishing breadth of interviews of survivors and their relatives. . . . Of profound interest to serious students and readers of history. * Library Journal * Joskowicz offers a fascinating and often heartbreaking account of the Roma struggle for justice and restitution in the face of persecution. . . . The great virtue of Joskowicz's book, alongside the comprehensiveness of its research, is its refusal to reduce any of the weighty issues it discusses to abstractions, or to stray from the complex and often contradictory human experiences at stake. Instead, Joskowicz grounds his account in the lives of the people whose suffering and whose activism animate his scholarship. ---Daniel Kraft, Slate A clear, flow ing por trait of this under stud ied but deeply vio lat ed pop u la tion that fun da men tal ly alters our per cep tion of the Holo caust, enlarg ing it to include the Romani vic tims and bring ing to the fore their quest for his tor i cal jus tice and self-representation. . . . [An] illuminating new book. ---Linda F. Burghardt, Jewish Book Council