Yehudhith

Photographs. Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. Elliot Ross's book features photography of contemporary Jewish women, combined with text from various sources on women and the Holocaust. Elliot Ross's work has been exhibited widely and is in collections in the United States and abroad, including those of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Art Museum of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He lives in San Francisco. "We are about to get a very particular view of the Holocaust: as a battle over the bodies of women - mothers and potential mothers, as the Nazis saw them - the special horrors afforded them as living emblems of the survival of the Jewish people" - from the introduction by Ellen Ullman.