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Jews in the red army : front and civilian rear correspondence, 1941-1945 / Leonid Smilovitsky ; translated by Stefani Hoffman.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Smilovit︠s︡kiĭ, Leonid, 1955- author.
Contributor:
Hoffman, Stefani, translator.
Series:
Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; bd. 135.
Rethinking diaspora ; v. 8.
Studia Judaica ; band 135
Rethinking diaspora; volume 8
Language:
English
Russian
Subjects (All):
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Soviet Union.
Jews--Soviet Union--History.
Jews.
Jews--Soviet Union--Biography.
Military participation--Jewish.
Soviet Union.
Genre:
Biographies
History
Personal narratives -- Jewish
Physical Description:
xx, 578 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles (some color) ; 25 cm
Other Title:
Front and civilian rear correspondence, 1941-1945
Place of Publication:
Berlin : De Gruyter, 2026.
Language Note:
English text translated from Russian.
Summary:
"This monograph deals with the contribution of Soviet Jews, soldiers and commanders in the Red Army, to the victory over Nazi Germany as reflected through the private correspondence between the front and the civilian rear. The basis for the research is the author's unique collection of personal items (letters, diaries, documents, and photographs) of Jews who served in the Red Army and members of their families. This collection was supplemented by archival documents and information obtained from academic and popular publications, periodicals, and memoirs of the participants in the war and their families. The book elucidates a wide spectrum of topics related to the work of the military field post. The topics encompass not only battles but also everyday military life, soldiers' personal lives, relations between men and women, the work of the military censorship, letters of Soviet soldiers and officers in Yiddish, and Soviet Jews' correspondence with foreign entities"-- Provided by publisher.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [523]-543) and index.
ISBN:
311143799X
9783111437996
OCLC:
1569677707

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