SOURCE: A review of Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust, in Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women, Vol. 9, No. 2, Winter, 1993–94, p. 46.

[Below, Brent remarks favorably on the book under review.]

When Carol Rittner read John Roth and Michael Berenbaum's Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications, she asked the age-old inevitable question, "Where are the women?" They weren't in that book, nor are their experiences reflected in most of the books about the Holocaust. Indeed, although women survivors have never been silent and their narratives are no longer rare, their stories and experiences did not receive much attention, nor were they anthologized. But Jewish women were doubly vulnerable: they were victims of both Nazi atrocities and misogyny. They experienced "different horrors" but the "same Hell," a description that underpins and unifies Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust (edited by Carol Rittner and John K. Roth).

Rittner and Roth...