Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering

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.

Author: Harriet Murav, Gennady Estraikh
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 05/30/2018
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9781618118165
ISBN10: 1618118161
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General
- History | Russia | General
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social

About the Author
Harriet Murav is professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hey studies of Dostoyevsky, Russian law and literature, and twentieth century Russian and Yiddish literature are complemented by her most recent monograph, Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia (2011). She is the co-editor of Jews in the East European Borderlands: Essays in Honor of John Klier (2012).