Dance on the Razor’s Edge

Exploring notions of justice and morality, this book offers a new interpretation of everyday life in the ghettos during the Second World War.

Svenja Bethke is a lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Leicester.

"Well organized and well written, Dance on the Razor’s Edge represents the best quality of scholarship. Based on impressive research in several archives in Poland, Israel, and the United States, it offers a strong argument clearly presented and explained. The text, devoted to a problematic, emotionally loaded, and contested subject, is written in an objective, tactful, and calm – but at the same time, clear and convincing – tone. This book will be fascinating to a general audience and even more attractive to students and professors of Holocaust studies and the Second World War."

Tim Cole, Professor of Social History and Director of the Brigstow Institute, Bristol University of Bristol:

"Dance on the Razor’s Edge　is an important addition to the literature on Holocaust-era ghettos given the originality of both its focus on law and order and its novel source base. Through comparative analysis of three ghettos – in three different geopolitical contexts – the book highlights overlapping experiences as well as key differences in Jewish experiences."