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Soviet Jews in World War II
Estraikh, Gennadiy; Murav, Harriet
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Description for Soviet Jews in World War II
Hardback. Series: Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 270 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBWQ; HRJP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 553.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
Series
Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781618113139
SKU
V9781618113139
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About Estraikh, Gennadiy; Murav, Harriet
Gennady Estraikh is associate professor of Yiddish studies, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He is the author of Yiddish in the Cold War (2008), In Harness: Yiddish Writer's Romance with Communism (2004), Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development (1999) and the co-editor of Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics, and Art (2012) and 1929: ... Read more
Reviews for Soviet Jews in World War II
"The essays range far and wide."
Sheldon Kirshner, The Times of Israel, 5 Feb 2017
sheldonkirshner.com and The Times of Israel
“One of this volume’s most significant achievements is that it contains material that will help educators teach about the Soviet Jewish experience as part of undergraduate courses on the Holocaust. Beautiful translations of Erenburg letters, Selvinskii’s ... Read more
Sheldon Kirshner, The Times of Israel, 5 Feb 2017
sheldonkirshner.com and The Times of Israel
“One of this volume’s most significant achievements is that it contains material that will help educators teach about the Soviet Jewish experience as part of undergraduate courses on the Holocaust. Beautiful translations of Erenburg letters, Selvinskii’s ... Read more