Jews in Nazi-oppupied Warsaw during the 1940s were under increasingthreat as they were stripped of their rights and forced to live in a guardedghetto away from the non- Jewish Polish population. Within the ghettos,a small but distinct group existed: the assimilated, acculturated, and baptizedJews. Unwilling to integrate into the Jewish community and unable tomerge with the Polish one, they formed a group of their own, remainingin a state of suspension throughout the interwar period. In 1940, with theclosure of the Jewish Residential Quarter in Warsaw, their identity waschosen for them.Person looks at what it meant for assimilated Jews to leave their prewarneighborhoods, understood as both a physical environment and a mixedPolish Jewish community, and enter a new, Jewish one. She reveals thediversity of this group and how its members' identity shaped their involvementin and contribution to ghetto life. In the first English-language studyof this small but influential group, Person illuminates the important role ofthe acculturated and assimilated Jews to the history and memory of theWarsaw ghetto.