David G. Roskies is the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature and Culture and professor of Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and is the author of Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture, which was awarded the Ralph Waldo Prize from Phi Beta Kappa. Samuel D. Kassow is Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College. He is the author of Who Will Write Our History? and editor of In Those Nightmarish Days, by Peretz Opoczynski and Josef Zelkowicz.
This is the most important collection of surviving documents written by Jews during the Holocaust. --Karen Auerbach, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill