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Record Nr.

UNISA996328044503316

Autore

Murav Harriet

Titolo

Soviet Jews and World War II : fighting, witnessing, remembering / / edited by Harriet Murav and Gennady Estraikh ; cover design by Ivan Grave

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brighton, Massachusetts : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61811-816-1

1-61811-926-5

1-61811-686-X

1-61811-314-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

Borderlines: Russian and East-European Studies

Disciplina

940.531503924

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Jewish resistance

Jews, Soviet

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part 1: Histories -- Chapter 1. Jewish Combatants of the Red Army Confront the Holocaust / Altshuler, Mordechai -- Chapter 2. Ilʹia Ehrenburg and the Holocaust in the Soviet Press / Rubenstein, Joshua -- Chapter 3. Jews at War: Diaries from the Front / Budnitskii, Oleg -- Chapter 4. Jews as Cossacks: A Symbiosis in Literature and Life / Estraikh, Gennady -- Chapter 5. How the Jewish Intelligentsia Created the Jewishness of the Jewish Hero: The Soviet Yiddish Press / Zeltser, Arkadi -- Part II: Representation, Documentation, and Interpretation -- Chapter 6. Foreshadowing the Holocaust: Boris Slutskii's Jewish Poetic Cycle of 1940/41 / Grinberg, Marat -- Chapter 7. Poetry After Kerch': Representing Jewish Mass Death in the Soviet Union / Murav, Harriet -- Chapter 8. Between the Permitted and the Forbidden: The Politics of Holocaust Representation in The Unvanquished (1945) / Gershenson, Olga -- Chapter 9. From Photojournalist to Memory Maker: Evgenii Khaldei and Soviet Jewish Photographers / Shneer, David -- Chapter 10. Memoirs / Slutskii, Boris / Romm, Mikhail / Rybakov, Anatolii --



Chapter 11. Afterword Soviet Jews in World War II: Experience, Perception and Interpretation / Gitelman, Zvi -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, as the period between June 22, 1941, and May 9, 1945 was known in the Soviet Union. The essays included here examine both newly-discovered and previously-neglected oral testimony, poetry, cinema, diaries, memoirs, newspapers, and archives. This is one of the first books to combine the study of Russian and Yiddish materials, reflecting the nature of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, which, for the first time during the Soviet period, included both Yiddish-language and Russian-language writers. This volume will be of use to scholars, teachers, students, and researchers working in Russian and Jewish history.