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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murav, Harriet, Author.

Contributor:

Murav, Harriet, editor.

Ėstraĭkh, G. (Gennadiĭ), editor.

Grave, Ivan, cover designer.

National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program, Funder.

Series:

Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)

Borderlines: Russian and East-European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.

World War, 1939-1945.

Jews, Soviet.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

Brighton, Massachusetts : Academic Studies Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 19, 2014).

ISBN:

1-61811-816-1

1-61811-926-5

1-61811-686-X

1-61811-314-3

OCLC:

1135588890