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Record Nr.

UNINA9910845066403321

Autore

Budnitskii Oleg

Titolo

Jews in the Soviet Union: A History : War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945, Volume 3 / / Oleg Budnitskii, Anna Shternshis, David Engel, Gennady Estraikh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9781479819454

147981945X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

947/.004924

Soggetti

HISTORY / Jewish

History

Electronic books.

Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Prologue -- New lands, new subjects -- Disfigurment -- Spaces for survival -- The Front -- Leadership -- The rear -- Appendix: How many Jews served in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War?

Sommario/riassunto

Provides a comprehensive history of Soviet Jewry during World War II. At the beginning of the twentieth century, more Jews lived in the Russian Empire than anywhere else in the world. After the Holocaust, the USSR remained one of the world's three key centers of Jewish population, along with the United States and Israel. While a great deal is known about the history and experiences of the Jewish people in the US and in Israel in the twentieth century, much less is known about the experiences of Soviet Jews. Understanding the history of Jewish communities under Soviet rule is essential to comprehending the dynamics of Jewish history in the modern world. Only a small number of scholars and the last generation of Soviet Jews who lived during this period hold a deep knowledge of this history. Jews in the Soviet Union, a new multi-volume history, is an unprecedented undertaking. Publishing over the next few years, this groundbreaking work draws on



rare access to documents from the Soviet archives, allowing for the presentation of a sweeping history of Jewish life in the Soviet Union from 1917 through the early 1990s. Volume 3 explores how the Soviet Union's changing relations with Nazi Germany between the signing of a nonaggression pact in August 1939 and the Soviet victory over German forces in World War II affected the lives of some five million Jews who lived under Soviet rule at the beginning of that period. Nearly three million of those Jews perished; those who remained constituted a drastically diminished group, which represented a truncated but still numerically significant postwar Soviet Jewish community.--