Rachel F. Brenner was Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She published widely on responses to the Holocaust in Jewish Diaspora literature, Israeli literature, and Polish Literature and held fellowships at the Hebrew University, the Oxford Center for Jewish Studies, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Institute for Research in Humanities in the University of Wisconsin-Madison). Her books include Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty Hillesum; Inextricably Bonded--Israeli Jewish and Arab Writers Re-Visioning Culture, and The Freedom to Write: The Woman-Artist and the World in Ruth Almog’s Fiction (in Hebrew). The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers’ Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945 (Northwestern University Press, 2014) received the University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies. Her last book, “Polish Literature and the Holocaust: Eyewitness Testimonies, 1942–1947,” was published in 2019 by Northwestern University Press. Rachel Brenner passed away in 2021.