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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960563203321

Autore

Shrayer Maxim D.

Titolo

I Saw It : Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah / / Maxim D. Shrayer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-61811-191-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Collana

Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History

Classificazione

KK 7195

Altri autori (Persone)

SelʹvinskiĭIlʹi︠a︡ Lʹvovich <1899-1968.>

Disciplina

940.5318

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Selʹvinskiĭ, Ilʹi︠a︡ Lʹvovich, -- 1899-1968

Poets, Russian - 20th century - Soviet Union

Languages & Literatures

Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter one. Selvinsky on the Shoah by Bullet -- Chapter two. The Price of Bearing Witness to the Shoah -- Chapter three. The Victory and Beyond -- Chapter four. Selvinsky's Legacy and Soviet Shoah Poetry -- Appendix: Two Shoah Poems by Ilya Selvinsky: Russian originals and English translations -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Praise for I SAW IT: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah / Shrayer, Maxim D. -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

In this ground-breaking book, based on archival and field research and previously unknown historical evidence, Maxim D. Shrayer introduces the work of Ilya Selvinsky, the first Jewish-Russian poet to depict the Holocaust (Shoah) in the occupied Soviet territories. In January 1942, while serving as a military journalist, Selvinsky witnessed the immediate aftermath of the massacre of thousands of Jews outside the Crimean city of Kerch, and thereafter composed and published poems about it. Shrayer painstakingly reconstructs the details of the Nazi atrocities witnessed by Selvinsky, and shows that in 1943, as Stalin's regime increasingly refused to report the annihilation of Jews in the occupied



territories, Selvinsky paid a high price for his writings and actions. This book features over 60 rare photographs and illustrations and includes translations of Selvinsky's principal Shoah poems.